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I have yet to hear someone complain about Maps other than missing features - both personally, and observed through chatter online. So his comment gels with ever

by scott_s 14y ago

I have yet to hear someone complain about Maps other than missing features - both personally, and observed through chatter online. So his comment gels with everything I know. I'm curious to learn about people complaining about something other than missing features, so if you can point me to them or say what your experiences are, I'd like to know.

mikeash 14y ago
My experience went basically like this: 1. Check out the location of my new house. Apple's data is years old and predates the whole development. The area is new, but not THAT new. Google and OpenStreetMap both have it fine. 2. Use it to navigate to a park I'd never been to before. Get told "you have arrived" while going under an interstate overpass. Find a driveway to pull off in, spend about ten minutes screwing around with the park's web site verifying the address, finding a better map, etc., finally figure out that the app sent me about half a mile in the wrong direction down this road. Google, of course, has the correct location for the address. 3. Use it to navigate to a restaurant I'd never been to before. "You have arrived" happens in front of a tiny strip mall with no restaurants. Wander around the area for a while and finally find it. Later on I check to see what happened, and it's pretty incredible. Maps had been opened with a link of the form, Restaurant@latitude,longitude. Stripping off the "Restaurant@" portion gives the correct location. With the restaurant name in it, Maps ignored the lat/lon and preferred its POI data, which was just plain wrong. At that point, I gave up on the thing. Note that this is not the sequence of bad experience that were interspersed with good ones. These are the only experiences I had in using the thing, aside from two trivial tests navigating to and from day care which I do almost every day anyway. Many other people I've talked to report similar experiences. Addresses are misplaced, POIs are misplaced, stuff is mislabeled or severely out of date, etc.
- scott_s 14y ago
  That sucks. Looking at what you said and others in the thread, it sounds like the biggest problem is the data. I've done a bunch of spot-checks of locations near me, but I'm in the NYC area. I assume the NYC area would get a lot of attention for map data. (By the way, the above is response is much more constructive than saying "un-fucking-believeable" in response to someone who is not aware of problems.)

by scott_s 14y ago

mikeash 14y ago

My experience went basically like this: 1. Check out the location of my new house. Apple's data is years old and predates the whole development. The area is new, but not THAT new. Google and OpenStreetMap both have it fine. 2. Use it to navigate to a park I'd never been to before. Get told "you have arrived" while going under an interstate overpass. Find a driveway to pull off in, spend about ten minutes screwing around with the park's web site verifying the address, finding a better map, etc., finally figure out that the app sent me about half a mile in the wrong direction down this road. Google, of course, has the correct location for the address. 3. Use it to navigate to a restaurant I'd never been to before. "You have arrived" happens in front of a tiny strip mall with no restaurants. Wander around the area for a while and finally find it. Later on I check to see what happened, and it's pretty incredible. Maps had been opened with a link of the form, Restaurant@latitude,longitude. Stripping off the "Restaurant@" portion gives the correct location. With the restaurant name in it, Maps ignored the lat/lon and preferred its POI data, which was just plain wrong. At that point, I gave up on the thing. Note that this is not the sequence of bad experience that were interspersed with good ones. These are the only experiences I had in using the thing, aside from two trivial tests navigating to and from day care which I do almost every day anyway. Many other people I've talked to report similar experiences. Addresses are misplaced, POIs are misplaced, stuff is mislabeled or severely out of date, etc.

scott_s 14y ago
That sucks. Looking at what you said and others in the thread, it sounds like the biggest problem is the data. I've done a bunch of spot-checks of locations near me, but I'm in the NYC area. I assume the NYC area would get a lot of attention for map data. (By the way, the above is response is much more constructive than saying "un-fucking-believeable" in response to someone who is not aware of problems.)