It's not fixed for me. It's still giving me the weather for St. Louis, Georgia. You can verify this by clicking the Yahoo icon and it will show the full city name.
Come on Apple, it's been broken for a month. This is ridiculous. Fix it already.
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Wow. Apple Maps is a disaster.
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It's not fixed for me. It's still giving me the weather for St. Louis, Georgia. You can verify this by clicking the Yahoo icon and it will show the full city name.
Come on Apple, it's been broken for a month. This is ridiculous. Fix it already.
Maybe the change is rolling out progressively. I would think it would be an immediate change for all users; but when I say, "What's the forecast for St. Louis?", it now clearly gives me the forecast for St. Louis, MO. In order to get the forecast for St. Louis, GA, I have to specifically ask, "What's the forecast for St. Louis, Georgia?"
could be your carrier
i've had AT&T play with their routing and my location show up as Texas instead of NYC. this was over a year ago.
I dearly love raking Apple over the coals for Maps, but SNL just did a skit about Maps, purple Haze and skuffs and scratches.
It's truly hilarious!
The middle video link worked me, ymmv:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/14/hilar...c-MacAllDay+(9+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence)
This doesn't make the controversy go away, but it does take some of the obsession out of it???
It's truly hilarious!
The middle video link worked me, ymmv:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/14/hilar...c-MacAllDay+(9+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence)
This doesn't make the controversy go away, but it does take some of the obsession out of it???
Apple Maps problem, Washington DC, October 15
"My first destination was 9707 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda. This is an enormous apartment building on one of the most major arteries of the metropolitan area. Apple thought it was about 1 mile from the actual location and had it on the wrong side of the street."
"The application does not seem to take advantage of traffic information. This is a serious problem in a city whose Saturday afternoon traffic would make nearly any Third World capital seem like an efficient place to live."
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
(halfway down the page)
"My first destination was 9707 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda. This is an enormous apartment building on one of the most major arteries of the metropolitan area. Apple thought it was about 1 mile from the actual location and had it on the wrong side of the street."
"The application does not seem to take advantage of traffic information. This is a serious problem in a city whose Saturday afternoon traffic would make nearly any Third World capital seem like an efficient place to live."
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
(halfway down the page)
Both Apple and Goggle show the same exact location...are they both wrong?
Edit: Sorry..Apple may show the address less than 50 yards south of the entrance to the complex?
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I don't use 3D or satellite layers, those are pointless and confusing when actually wanting to use turn-by-turn. Otherwise Maps is absolutely fantastic! If only Google Maps had such perfected turn-by-turn navigation.
I continue to be amazed and disappointed by how awful maps are each and every time I open the app.
Last weekend I wanted to visit Trentham Gardens, which is about an hour away from me here in the UK and a big attraction. Maps immediately returned the location Trentham Gardens in search and my heart leapt a little... until I saw the result it returned was in New Zealand. I turned the damn phone off and got an atlas out.
Today I asked Siri for directions to Ikea. It returned 5, all on the other side of the country when my city has one right here. I looked on the map where I thought it was and sure enough no POI. But there was a road named 'Ikea Way', so I asked Siri for directions to that, only to be told it couldn't find 'Ikea Way'.
Each and every time I try to use this piece of rubbish it fails me, and I can't even use turn by tun if it can't find my destination.
Last weekend I wanted to visit Trentham Gardens, which is about an hour away from me here in the UK and a big attraction. Maps immediately returned the location Trentham Gardens in search and my heart leapt a little... until I saw the result it returned was in New Zealand. I turned the damn phone off and got an atlas out.
Today I asked Siri for directions to Ikea. It returned 5, all on the other side of the country when my city has one right here. I looked on the map where I thought it was and sure enough no POI. But there was a road named 'Ikea Way', so I asked Siri for directions to that, only to be told it couldn't find 'Ikea Way'.
Each and every time I try to use this piece of rubbish it fails me, and I can't even use turn by tun if it can't find my destination.
My take:
Living in London, the POI database needs improving, a lot. Getting me to venues via postcode works well, giving me walking directions without issue.
Living in North Wales, I used the satnav function, from my friends place of work to home. Home is on a unmarked road, so I pin dropped it, using the aerial maps, I can still make out the house from those maps. Granted the maps were not a clear and sharp as Googles, but directional commands and location worked a treat, did not steer me wrong.
As I use maps predominantly for directions via postcodes it just works.
Apple has a lot of money to throw at this, and I'm sure it will be solved rather quickly.
Google relied on crowd sourced information at the beginning of google maps as well as paid ones, for Apple it's the same, this only takes time and effort, from sources Apple introduces, and from the users to report new things - and report the wrong ones.
Living in London, the POI database needs improving, a lot. Getting me to venues via postcode works well, giving me walking directions without issue.
Living in North Wales, I used the satnav function, from my friends place of work to home. Home is on a unmarked road, so I pin dropped it, using the aerial maps, I can still make out the house from those maps. Granted the maps were not a clear and sharp as Googles, but directional commands and location worked a treat, did not steer me wrong.
As I use maps predominantly for directions via postcodes it just works.
Apple has a lot of money to throw at this, and I'm sure it will be solved rather quickly.
Google relied on crowd sourced information at the beginning of google maps as well as paid ones, for Apple it's the same, this only takes time and effort, from sources Apple introduces, and from the users to report new things - and report the wrong ones.
You're welcome!
And as you can see, another complainer was once again proven to be exaggerating the situation completely.
I see the maps app as two seperate functions: a turn by turn GPS and a list of POIs. The turn by turn is actually pretty good, but the POI list is lacking somewhat.
However, what confuses me about the POIs is the labelling of some of them. Some newsagents are labelled as 'convenience stores' which they are, but the icon on Maps is that of a petrol station, which most of these definitely are not. It's quite a confusing situation for anyone looking around on the map for a petrol station to find that it's not actually a petrol station they've pulled up at!
However, what confuses me about the POIs is the labelling of some of them. Some newsagents are labelled as 'convenience stores' which they are, but the icon on Maps is that of a petrol station, which most of these definitely are not. It's quite a confusing situation for anyone looking around on the map for a petrol station to find that it's not actually a petrol station they've pulled up at!
You seem to be enjoying yourself.
I bet you can't find Wordsley Hospital near Stourbridge, UK?
My experience exactly. It's still amazing to me that so few people have the cognitive ability to imagine that their personal experience may not reflect the experience of others. Nobody with map problems is saying that those who say their maps work fine are wrong, but those who have functioning maps seem incapable of accepting that many of us are experiencing the map app as utterly unacceptable and often useless.
Oh well...this thread will continue until something changes, I'm sure.
This? Not sure it is right as Google maps tried to take me to two unrelated hospitals. It was only after I looked on Bing that I was able to confirm it as correct...and Google Maps does take you here as well if you just use Wordsley as a search.....I'm sure this is some sort of "trap" and you have some point to make with your request?
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It is indeed a trap.
Wordsley Hospital closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2007. It has been redeveloped as housing and if you zoom in you can see the new roads underneath the Hospital.
Reported a month ago and twice more since.
It is indeed a trap.
Wordsley Hospital closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2007. It has been redeveloped as housing and if you zoom in you can see the new roads underneath the Hospital.
Reported a month ago and twice more since.
Yet Google still takes you there if you type it in? Probably because, according to Wikipedia, while not functioning as a hospital, the key buildings are still there and recognized as such...again...even by Google.
This error is no different than gas station symbols showing up where fuel companies are located.
When someone dies because Maps takes them to a hospital that doesn't exist anymore, the family can sue me by proxy....
Google takes you to the bus stop which still has the old name, click the transportdirect.info link in the search results.
Exactly...
And imagine how annoying it is when examples are given claiming it is "wrong" and they aren't true.
So predictable.
Not as annoying as the reverse. What kind of evidence are you looking for, besides Tim Cook's own apology and the thousands of screen shots and complaints from all over the globe? Are you really saying that claims of map inadequacy and abysmal reliability are exaggerated?
If so, and given the preponderance of evidence out there, nothing will or can convince you to accept the reality of Apple's map fiasco. The only question I keep asking myself is why people here so vehemently defend a large corporation when even the company's CEO has acknowledged its failures and publicly apologised for them? Crazy.
When someone dies because Maps takes them to a hospital that doesn't exist anymore, the family can sue me by proxy....
Oh good. Skejby Sygehus in Aarhus was built in 1988 and is not on Apple maps. It's good to know that people can sue because Apple Maps takes them to a closed emergency room. Please provide Your contact details then
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Oh good. Skejby Sygehus in Aarhus was built in 1988 and is not on Apple maps. It's good to know that people can sue because Apple Maps takes them to a closed emergency room. Please provide Your contact details then
Just IM me here or contact me at Apple HQ...