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This is a great write up but aweful news for us Apple users who finally thought Apple would be able to catch up with Google Maps. That is the only have part of

This is a great write up but aweful news for us Apple users who finally thought Apple would be able to catch up with Google Maps. That is the only have part of one state and will be many years until the whole country but the promise that the new data would be near perfect made it worth the wait. Apple continues to favor manual vs automated such as news and music and in each case googles automated approach wins out. Yes Apple is backing privacy which is fine but they shouldn’t say they can offer equal or better features and also pursuing the privacy strategy. POI and Yelp has been the major issue with Apple Maps and this review shows they aren’t changing in this regard so now we have better vegetation but same POI issues. Very disappointing.

stephen_g 8y ago
> That is the only have part of one state and will be many years until the whole country [...] *whole world. Apple maps users are not just in the US. I think your concerns might be overstated though. Hopefully they've just decided to heavily focus on this area up to now to tune their algorithms etc. and will be able to roll it out much more quickly from here on out. POIs definitely need to be much improved but there seems to be some very solid street data updates with this.
toasterlovin 8y ago
I’m pretty sure the plan is to roll out the rest of the US in the next year. Not sure about the rest of the world, though.
- degenerate 8y ago
  I'll be interested to see if they are unsatisfied with the way middle-America looks, and invent some way of showing corn and wheat in the maps software, further delaying the rollout. The vegetation data is literally the last thing that matters, and I can't believe Apple is this blind.
- bllguo 8y ago
  If the speculation is correct that these features are manually added, I don't see how that's remotely possible within a year. of course, simply extrapolating the current rate of progress gives a similarly dismal outlook.

stephen_g 8y ago

> That is the only have part of one state and will be many years until the whole country [...] *whole world. Apple maps users are not just in the US. I think your concerns might be overstated though. Hopefully they've just decided to heavily focus on this area up to now to tune their algorithms etc. and will be able to roll it out much more quickly from here on out. POIs definitely need to be much improved but there seems to be some very solid street data updates with this.

toasterlovin 8y ago

I’m pretty sure the plan is to roll out the rest of the US in the next year. Not sure about the rest of the world, though.

degenerate 8y ago
I'll be interested to see if they are unsatisfied with the way middle-America looks, and invent some way of showing corn and wheat in the maps software, further delaying the rollout. The vegetation data is literally the last thing that matters, and I can't believe Apple is this blind.
bllguo 8y ago
If the speculation is correct that these features are manually added, I don't see how that's remotely possible within a year. of course, simply extrapolating the current rate of progress gives a similarly dismal outlook.