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Apple maps still has a ways to go. I say this as someone who tries to use it frequently because I much prefer its UI, especially with Carplay. But it still has
by js2 8y ago
Apple maps still has a ways to go. I say this as someone who tries to use it frequently because I much prefer its UI, especially with Carplay. But it still has much worse traffic data, still sometimes sends me on weird routes through neighborhoods that don't save any time nor distance, and lately has a fun glitch where it sometimes instructs me turn left instead of right or vice/versa because it apparently thinks my vehicle is facing 180° from what it actually is. The turn glitch has now happened to me several times across two different devices. I thought I imagined it the first time.
- cageface 8y agoApple maps is inferior to Google in almost every respect in Asia. I open it now and again just to see if it’s improved and always switch back immediately to Gmaps. With hardware sales slowing Apple has a lot more incentive to improve it than they did when the iPhone gravy train seemed unstoppable though.
- maracuja-juice 8y agoIn China I experienced that it's exactly the other way around.
- ucaetano 8y agoWhich isn't surprising as Google is blocked in China. Also, by being blocked, they can't use the Chinese government's service to "correct" the errors that China introduces in the maps: https://geoawesomeness.com/china-messing-gps-coordinates/ https://geoawesomeness.com/china-messing-gps-coordinates/
- elcomet 8y agoIsn't Google maps blocked in China?
- maracuja-juice 8y agoIt is perfectly accessible, just a not a very good map over there. Once we wanted to go to a bar but it turned out that they moved a few years ago to a completely different part of Shanghai.
- wtmt 8y agoYes, Apple Maps is inferior in Asia (speaking from India here). But it seems to be improving. I noticed that it uses many sources for maps, including TomTom. [1] I’d read maybe a year or two ago that Apple was working on improving maps in other countries, but that effort was projected to be done or getting done by 2020 or 2021. Still a long way to go, but Apple isn’t ignoring it, like it used to seem a few years ago. [1]: https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-136.html https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-136.html
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- gibspaulding 8y agoI've never used Apple maps, so I can't compare the two, but I can say that Google also really likes routing me through random twisty neighborhoods for no good reason.