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True as of just now, so yes.

by dmd 7y ago

azinman2 7y ago
That’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 ago
  Yeah, 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 ago
    Yeah, 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.
- mackey 7y ago
  I posted this on another comment but I curious if you have any advice. I work in downtown Boston and my building's address isn't in Apple Maps. It "corrects" it to some place in JP, which is a residential address. There are several restaurants and and companies in this building, all marked as being in JP. I have submitted a lot of map corrections but all that does is move the location of the business on the map to the right place even though it still has the wrong address listed. That means if you actually try to navigate to them, it brings you to the wrong place. It also means no location based triggers work for things like Homekit and/or reminders. There are hundreds of people in this building, right in downtown. How do I get it to understand this address?
  - dmd 7y ago
    Yup. I live in Arlingon. I put in 123 mystreet street, arlington, ma ... and it navigates to 123 mystreet ROAD, belmont, ma. My street has existed for 150 years.
  - azinman2 7y ago
    Email my hn username, minus the number, at Apple and I’ll try to pass on the info. Note I don’t work on maps, but I’ll try to put the issue into the machine :)
- pabs3 7y ago
  I wish Apple were to use and contribute to OSM, then folks could just fix issues they come across.
- damnyou 7y ago
  I'd be happy to report maps issues for Apple, Google or any other corporation with a market cap of over $100 billion, at my consulting rate of $800/hour. Of course, I contribute to OpenStreetMaps pro bono.
  - deleted 7y ago
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True as of just now, so yes.

by dmd 7y ago

True as of just now, so yes.

That’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 ago
Yeah, 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 ago
  Yeah, 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.
mackey 7y ago
I posted this on another comment but I curious if you have any advice. I work in downtown Boston and my building's address isn't in Apple Maps. It "corrects" it to some place in JP, which is a residential address. There are several restaurants and and companies in this building, all marked as being in JP. I have submitted a lot of map corrections but all that does is move the location of the business on the map to the right place even though it still has the wrong address listed. That means if you actually try to navigate to them, it brings you to the wrong place. It also means no location based triggers work for things like Homekit and/or reminders. There are hundreds of people in this building, right in downtown. How do I get it to understand this address?
- dmd 7y ago
  Yup. I live in Arlingon. I put in 123 mystreet street, arlington, ma ... and it navigates to 123 mystreet ROAD, belmont, ma. My street has existed for 150 years.
- azinman2 7y ago
  Email my hn username, minus the number, at Apple and I’ll try to pass on the info. Note I don’t work on maps, but I’ll try to put the issue into the machine :)
pabs3 7y ago
I wish Apple were to use and contribute to OSM, then folks could just fix issues they come across.
damnyou 7y ago
I'd be happy to report maps issues for Apple, Google or any other corporation with a market cap of over $100 billion, at my consulting rate of $800/hour. Of course, I contribute to OpenStreetMaps pro bono.
- deleted 7y ago
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