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There was off ramp that changed 4 years ago near where I live. Google maps was correct, but Apple always would have you take the wrong exit and you had to loop
by celeritascelery 7y ago
There was off ramp that changed 4 years ago near where I live. Google maps was correct, but Apple always would have you take the wrong exit and you had to loop back. With the most recent update this is finally fixed. However most people still saying that Apple Maps in unreliable. Having big issues like that for years can really damage people’s perception of your product long after it has been changed.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIn my area (Santa Rosa, CA) Apple Maps is still worse than Google Maps. The routing is often very strange and it sometimes still can't find stores like OfficeDepot close by.
- threeseed 7y agoPOIs are a whole different story. I can't speak for US but in Australia and UK it is so far behind Google. It feels like 1/3 of them are simply missing and a 1/3 of them are inaccurate in some way e.g. opening hours. I don't know how Foursquare and Yelp who supply Apple are surviving right now with such inadequate data.
- cptskippy 7y agoDoes Apple let users update POIs? We went to a restaurant recently and it was closed, I snapped a photo of the hours and tagged the restaurant with it in Google Maps and it was updated to reflect the correct hours the same day.
- labcomputer 7y ago1. Press the circle-i icon on the top left of Maps. 2. Select Report an Issue 3. Select Map Labels 4. Fill out the form, and add pictures. 5. Wait a few weeks. I've added my workplace this way.
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- ldrndll 7y agoYeah, perceptions like that are really hard to shake, because those people are likely all using Google Maps. I found Apple Maps used to be less reliable than Google Maps, but would still use it. For places that I wasn't sure of, I'd often double check on Google Maps just to be sure. Lately I've been finding more and more instances where - when they differ - the Apple Maps result is the correct one. It'll be interesting to see how Apple communicate this to iOS users, and if they'll go out of their way to get back users they've lost to Google Maps. I'm based in the UK, YMMV
- dmd 7y agoAnd yet it's still wrong often enough to be useless. I'm in near-Boston suburbs (Arlington), and every so often I give Apple Maps a try, and literally every single time I do it's just awful. I just asked it for directions from my work to my house, for example, and it routed me on a limited-access, no motor vehicle bicycle path.
- azinman2 7y agoIs that true now with the new data?
- dmd 7y agoTrue as of just now, so yes.
- azinman2 7y agoThat’s not good! I’d highly encourage you to report this issue. Can’t promise it’ll be looked at anytime soon, but it’s good to put into the queue: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/report-errors-in-apple-maps/ https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/report-errors-in-apple-maps...
- dmd 7y agoYeah, the thing is - this is not my responsibility. I just tried, for the hell of it, FIVE other common routes around Boston. One was bad (35 minute weird route, when the 'correct' one is under 10 - Google gets it right), two got the destination completely wrong, two were fine. It's not "some things are bad, so let's clean it up and fix the problems". It's so bad as to be unusable.
- heleninboodler 7y agoYeah, you're only going to get users to help out cleaning up your data if it's almost good enough. If it's bad enough that they simply can't use it, they'll help clean up your competitor's imperfect data instead.
- AmericanChopper 7y agoYears ago Apple maps got me really good. It told me to drive down a road, and then exit on what turned out to be an overpass. Which forced me into a very long round trip that went through a toll gate twice.