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The other day I used Apple Maps to turn up at a business meeting. I didn't notice it said "approximate location". Or, if I did, I probably thought since it was
by ioquatix 11y ago
The other day I used Apple Maps to turn up at a business meeting. I didn't notice it said "approximate location". Or, if I did, I probably thought since it was in a mall that the location was somewhere in the mall. Anyway, I turned up at the "approximate address". Guess how far off it was? Almost 5km. This was on a main street in my city that goes from one end of the city to the other.
- tdkl 11y agoNot being a devils advocate here, but this actually isn't bad. Some offline GPS navigation app solutions locate a specific address number you entered the same way - on the wanted street (which can be couple Km). But it doesn't indicate it's only an approximation, since it doesn't have the correct location in its maps database. Sygic is one of those from the top of my mind and it uses TomTom as mapping provider, same as Apple does.
- ioquatix 11y agoI see. Thanks for the explanation. We were not offline at any point, but I get what you are saying, it might just use estimates. While I get that, we really were at the complete opposite end of the street. This didn't seem like an error of factor f, but that perhaps -f.
- ianlevesque 11y agoHopefully you reported the error, they do incorporate those!
- ioquatix 11y agoI was so late for the meeting. My friend whipped out his android phone and said, "WHY DIDN'T YOU USE GOOGLE MAPS" and I was at a loss for words. It was basically schrodinger's cat all over again.