I don't think they are that bothered with fixing anything north of Watford.
I thought it worked perfectly down there?
I heard the only places it works properly are major cities across the pond...
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Wow. Apple Maps is a disaster.
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I heard the only places it works properly are major cities across the pond...
Not that Apple shouldn't be fixing things but as been said before they aren't going to fix something just because someone reported it. They need to verify that what someone says is correct and I'm sure they are doing this area by area. Not saying YOU would do but someone who owned, for instance, a rival restaurant, could report something about your restaurant location or your street that would cause business to not find you. Or someone could direct traffic totally the wrong way down a one way street. There are stupid, evil people who would do those things.
Are they moving fast enough - no but they do have to verify everything reported before changing maps.
Are they moving fast enough - no but they do have to verify everything reported before changing maps.
Most of the things I've been reporting (since last September) are towns and villages that aren't even labelled or are in the wrong place. It's easy enough to verify these, just check it against other maps.
But they're not.
There are major government buildings in Central London that are mislabelled and have been changed since Apple Maps shipped - but are still completely wrong.
One was previously labelled as a nightclub, and has now been changed to be a chemist!
The same here, although Apple did rescue Leuchars village from the North Sea. They've done nothing for POI's, which a nearly a decade out of date in my area and also inaccurate in terms of location for the stores that still exist. I know Scotland is waaaay North, but I paid no less for my iPhone that anybody in a US city.
Siri is also very limited where I am about some types of information. 
Just came across this recent article on Apple Maps.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/29/how-is-apple-maps-doing/?iid=SF_F_River
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/29/how-is-apple-maps-doing/?iid=SF_F_River
Written by people who have never even considered there's anywhere outside the US, and speak from a very uninformed position about how labour intensive fixing Apple's cartography will be. Ooh, Apple's hired someone in every territory. Only about another 999 employees in every territory to go then until you get the beginnings of necessary manpower.
I've posted on this thread in the past and honestly have not read every single line.
However, here are a few things that over time I find real good on the Maps APP.
1. seems to keep things in memory. This means that the maps are visible even without network.
2. the on-the-go and travel directions feature is very smooth
3. the way to enter a destination is just plain simple; write what you know
4. I think it shows roads that are often congested (red lines) which is good
However, here are a few things that over time I find real good on the Maps APP.
1. seems to keep things in memory. This means that the maps are visible even without network.
2. the on-the-go and travel directions feature is very smooth
3. the way to enter a destination is just plain simple; write what you know
4. I think it shows roads that are often congested (red lines) which is good
Do not use the maps app as of June 2013 my phone is up to date whereas my partner never updates hers and her map app is better than mine. An address that I put in with postcode and all did not exist on my phone and it kept taking me to the wrong place every time!! I lost a job interview that I would've got if it wasn't for this pile of junk ...very angry going to buy a satnav instead when I can afford one!
Apple maps remains awful in the two places I occasionally test it (London and South East of UK, and Dubai).
However since google maps came out I'm not angry about it. I hope apple maps improves (competition is good), but at the moment they are nowhere close.
However since google maps came out I'm not angry about it. I hope apple maps improves (competition is good), but at the moment they are nowhere close.
Nearly a year later, and countless 'report a problems' and service tickets, and Apple Maps still has no idea where I or anyone in my community live, the bulk of my corrections remain wrong, and all of the parks/ bike paths are still showing as barren wastelands.
At least with 'AntennaGate,' they not only told you how to avoid it, but gave free bumpers. With Apple Maps, I lost a bunch of built in features, received an embarrassing apology from Cook, but nothing has been changed and no compensation or solutions given.
At least with 'AntennaGate,' they not only told you how to avoid it, but gave free bumpers. With Apple Maps, I lost a bunch of built in features, received an embarrassing apology from Cook, but nothing has been changed and no compensation or solutions given.
Really? By apple dumping google maps, they got google to give you turn by turn on their app- something which Google wouldn't do before- unless you had Android. That's your compensation.
I use apple maps exclusively here in the states.
Just got back from trip around the Maritimes in Canada and was impressed how Apple Maps' turn by turn got us around so effortlessly, even in Halifax with it's twisty streets. There were missing POIs, but as long as we entered the street address (generally available on the Net) we were fine. Finding myself going to AM first more and more.
Why are people still bitching about Apple maps? There are numerous free map alternatives and Google map is back.
I live in the states and, as I've said, it has my address (and everyone around me) completely wrong... as they have been since the release and never fixed.
Turn by turn is useless when addresses are wrong (and continue to be regardless of sending corrections a year earlier).
As I've stated before in this thread, please tell me an alternative to location based reminders, Find My Friend/ Phone, or the numerous exercise or real estate apps that use the built in maps which are now useless.
I can understand your frustration in that case. You live in Westchester County less than an hour north of NYC. I'm not far from you in CT, a very rural area. My home is correct and direction work fine here and whenever I travel to NYC, like the airports. Maps in Manhatten is great. The 3D view is very useful.
Hardly a disaster in our area! But if you don't know where your house is, I can see the problem,
Suggestion: the GPS is fine, just the maps. Why not drop a pin at your home, add the pin to your contacts, name it, and then you can use it for some location services. Can make multiple pins.
Even find your phone will work. Just keep your car on a road while looking for the dot. The GPS is correct and certainly in the greater NY area the maps have work very well for me and the police.
But some real estate locations, especially small or new roads will cause a problem. I couldn't find a listed house in apple or google maps a few months back. Was not a new home either.
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That's my point. I don't live in the middle of nowhere, I live in the suburbs of NYC, and, even after a year of sending corrections, they still can't get my area correct.
While I may know where I live, the fact that they still don't makes me not want to trust Apple Maps when I'm in an unfamiliar area...which is usually extremely rural areas.
Dropping a pin doesn't work since it simply plugs in what it thinks is the nearest address rather than coordinates....which is the same exact point, a hundred meters away in the woods, where it thinks most of my community resides.
Siri just sent me on a wild goose chase trying to find a CVS pharmacy that moved 9 years ago!
I agree that it should be better, but having your home 300 feet off from its correct position, if I was driving 200 miles to your rural home, is not that bad. Mine is spot on (well 50 - 100 feet, but that's GPS).
Plus I live on a 2.5 acre lot. Where is my street address? The mailbox, the house, the middle of my lot? Get within 300 feet and you may be on my property.
Pin drop does work. It may assign an incorrect street number/road, but the lat/long coordinates where you move the pin are correct, and it will get you there with whatever roads are on the map. If no road exists, or are wrong on the map, driving on the real road will guide you there.
Sure, more work to be done, and some city addresses are off hundreds of feet. But I live in a very, very rural area, and the maps, even for small roads, are just a good as Google. For the greater NYC area, I use it exclusively.
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I'm in rural England and apple maps is no issue
You're lucky, it's still very poor here in the West Midlands.
I live in suburbia, not a rural area... and it's not just my address that is out in the wooded area, it's EVERYONE within a quarter mile that's pinpointed on the same exact spot.
I have yet to get dropping a pin give me coordinates. Instead, it chooses to give me random addresses from any of my supposed neighbors, which, when saved or shared, goes to that same useless point.... not that that would matter though unless I'm to start using lat/ long instead of my address.
I'm glad you don't feel a few hundred feet is a bother, but it is far enough to make location reminders (a feature I used to use regularly) completely useless.