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Apple Maps (at least in Barcelona) are outdated too much. Wrong buildings, wrong roads, wrong parcs - maps are 15 years old. Unusable.
by EugeneOZ 8y ago
Apple Maps (at least in Barcelona) are outdated too much. Wrong buildings, wrong roads, wrong parcs - maps are 15 years old. Unusable.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoWhile Apple (naturally) never really publicized this, the map data they've been using, including the terrible data where you are, has been cobbled together from a variety of third parties. According to reports earlier this year, a new Apple Maps data set is rolling out with iOS 12 -- but it's going to take a long time to be everywhere worldwide, because they're essentially building it from scratch the way Google did. The good news is that they had their new data available where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area during the iOS 12 beta period, and it's a noticeable improvement. I haven't been using Google Maps too much recently, but I find Apple Maps' routing here to be pretty comparable to Waze's, without doing the "here's a crazy shortcut!" thing that Waze occasionally does. (Sometimes the crazy shortcuts are good, but more often than not I've found they...aren't good.) The bad news is that it's probably gonna be years before they get Europe done.