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A lot of those users complaining are probably not US based. For example, where I live in Germany Apple Maps for the most part doesn't even have transit, while
by tpush 8y ago
A lot of those users complaining are probably not US based.
For example, where I live in Germany Apple Maps for the most part doesn't even have transit, while Google Maps has had it since years.
Or just recently I was looking for a supermarket which was supposedly very close to my location, so I looked it up on Apple Maps where the next one was. Told me it as 14km away. Turns out it was actually one street from where I was around a corner. Google Maps had the correct location.
I prefer Apple Maps' UX, but their data is either outdated or just plain wrong at times, which makes it effectively useless for a lot of things I now use Google Maps for.
- DavideNL 8y ago100% agree. I'm in the Netherlands (Europe, next to Germany) and live in a city with a population of ~120000 people. I often don't find places in Apple Maps, even in the middle of the city. Google Maps just finds everything. Recently, they build a few new roads which Apple Maps didn't know about (Google maps recognised it very early), so they keep sending people in the wrong direction. After about 3 months i got so annoyed that i sent feedback to Apple Maps to have it added which took me like half an hour to get through the process of adding/feedback. The sad thing is, the reason why Apple Maps is worse, is probably because they respect peoples privacy. Unlike Google, who follows android phones everywhere (1), and thus has more data, and better maps. 1) "Google has been tracking Android users even with location services turned off": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/22/google-track-android-users-location-services-turned-off-sim https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/22/google-tr...