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Apple 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 Gma

Apple 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 ago
In China I experienced that it's exactly the other way around.
- ucaetano 8y ago
  Which 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 ago
  Isn't Google maps blocked in China?
  - maracuja-juice 8y ago
    It 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 ago
Yes, 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