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I make something of a hobby out of filing Apple Maps corrections. Partly for my own reference, partly to support businesses (especially ones I really love), and
by brundolf 3y ago
I make something of a hobby out of filing Apple Maps corrections. Partly for my own reference, partly to support businesses (especially ones I really love), and partly just because there are lots of opportunities to do so because it isn't google maps, and it's fun to see one accepted, like a little game
To their credit, they're usually quick to turn around and update the info (or follow up for additional evidence that the correction is accurate)
- ceejayoz 3y agoI have an Apple Maps issue I can't figure out how to file a report of. I live at 123 My Street, and there's a nearby 123 East My Street about two miles north. If I say "Hey Siri, directions to Home", and I'm north of both of them, it'll direct me to the wrong place. If I'm south, it'll take me to the correct home. (The closest one, it'd seem.) Same thing even if I type the exact correct address into Apple Maps.
- orik 3y agoAre these not in different cities? If they are in the same city you could ask the city to rename your street 123 My Street South or something?
- ceejayoz 3y agoAll in the same town. Unlike most street name splits (like West Main / East Main), they're not even connected. Very little chance they'd change street names over this.
- kibibu 3y agoThis is a new level of bending to Apple's inadequacies. How about Apple figure out that streets with different but similar names exist? Or store "home" as a coordinate instead of an address?
- voisin 3y agoCould you label Home with your gps coordinates?
- ceejayoz 3y agoDoesn't seem to work; the newly dropped pin shows up as already in my favorites. Thankfully there's a school right next door, so I've learned to just ask for that.
- carlosjobim 3y agoWhy would you spend your time and effort to support a trillion dollar company like Apple, or restaurant owners who don't care about their own business? Both these parties can afford to do it themselves.
- petesergeant 3y agoBecause there’s a benefit to other members of the public, and some people are just nice
- matheusmoreira 3y agoPlease consider contributing to Open Street Maps as well. Our contributions are much more valuable there. Someone on HN got me started with OSM by suggesting I try Street Complete. Days later I was capturing GPS tracks and verifying the map correctness. Turned out to be a surprisingly accurate map. Then I downloaded mobile mapping apps and started improving roads, adding metadata to stuff. Then I downloaded JOSM... Once upon a time I used to add data to Google Maps because they dangled some bullshit Google Drive space in front of me as a reward. No longer.
- maelito 3y agoStreetComplete is addictive. That little complete sound... Van you explain why JOSM ? Never tried. I've used most mobile editors and the Web Id editor.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoJOSM is an incredibly advanced piece of software. Just learning the basics, the keyboard bindings and the editing modes made editing much more efficient. It contains an insane amount of functionality and tools built into it and it has plugin support. A mobile editor like Vespucci is quite capable and I still use it a lot but there's no competing with JOSM in terms of functionality. When I wanted to make detailed edits to points and the relationships between them, I often found that only JOSM supported what I wanted to do. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Advanced_editing https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Advanced_editing Splitting and combining ways are very common tasks that are trivial in JOSM but proved to be quite difficult if not impossible in other editors. Relations are used to add information such as road turn restrictions, editing these relations is essentially impossible in any editor other than JOSM.