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I've talked to people who have IOS6, and the consensus is that the maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else. In Finland, a guy I kno
by Tuna-Fish 14y ago
I've talked to people who have IOS6, and the consensus is that the maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else.
In Finland, a guy I know got directions that told him to go through a road that hasn't existed for 6 years.
Also, most of the market for iPhone users are city-dwellers, and most of those don't own cars. Having good timetable/route planner for public transit is very important. As I understand, Maps doesn't work for that at all.
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- microtherion 14y agoWhen you ask for transit directions, you get presented a selection of 3rd party apps from the app store to give you directions, and those directions are then integrated with Apple Maps. The app I used, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transit-directions-public/id561866269?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transit-directions-public/id5... was pretty bad on iOS 6 launch day (with instructions like "take a bus", without mentioning the line), but a week later improved to be perfectly usable here in Switzerland.
- mitchty 14y agoI have had no issues in Minneapolis/St. Paul. I think you're overblowing things with your statement of "completely useless everywhere else". I've even compared the directions against a friends s3 with google maps and Apple maps did better at some local routing than google maps did for what its worth.
- astrec 14y agoIt places my house 150m out to sea, and puts a rehabilitation centre that doesn't exist at the actual location of my house. In my town, a suburb of Melbourne AU, the Apple product is completely useless.
- LargeWu 14y agoI saw a news story in, I think, the Star Tribune with a picture of the new Maps app locating the Guthrie Theatre at its old location at the Walker. It hasn't been there for 3 years. Admittedly, I haven't used the new Maps app, but only because I've avoided upgrading my phone to iOS6 solely because I've heard the new Maps is so terrible.
- justincormack 14y agotransit directions never worked outside the US.
- rnadna 14y agoThey worked in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- yesbabyyes 14y agoHere in Sweden, Google Maps have transit directions for buses, subways, trams and boats in at least the three major cities.
- anabis 14y agoThey work on iOS 5.0.1 in Kyoto, Japan.
- kalleboo 14y agoExcept for the other 40+ countries where it works http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/text.html#mdy http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/text.html#mdy
- damncabbage 14y agoWorked (and still working on iOS 5) in Sydney, Australia. There are posters up everywhere advertising the fact.
- swah 14y agoWorks perfectly in Brazil (no buses though)
- kul 14y agoIt couldn't find 8 California Street in SF for me.
- stephencanon 14y ago> I've talked to people who have IOS6, and the consensus is that the maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else. I haven't had any trouble at all with them here in New England, FWIW.
- eropple 14y agoI have. Boston's and MetroWest's road maps are fine but points of interest are totally crap.
- chucknelson 14y ago> maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else Our personal, relatively microscopic sample sizes are the problem with the sentiment on this. I've used them in Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, and they worked fine for restaurants, turn-by-turn, etc. As others have said, a combination of the vocal minority and the human race's love for drama is what's keeping this discussion alive.
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- metamatt 14y agoI just got back from a 2 week vacation to Ireland. I planned and executed most of the trip on the fly using Google Maps on my iPhone 4S (3G data is cheap in Europe, even for nonresidents on prepaid SIMs!) running iOS 5. Just out of curiosity, after I got back, I upgraded my iPad to iOS 6 to see whether all the complaints I'd read about Apple's maps were legit. Then I went and looked up a bunch of the places we'd traveled or stayed in Ireland, to see if the new maps would have gotten the job done. Short story, it would have been a lot harder. In the spot checks I did, the roads are there, and in one case the driving directions are better than what Google recommended, but it mostly didn't know what I was talking about when I searched for businesses, like hotels we stayed at. Google has amassed a huge amount of really high quality data, not just roads but also businesses and places, which nobody else has. I don't know if there's widespread appreciation for how hard this is and how hard Google's been working on it (one example, and I'm sure this article is slightly politicized and the timing of it appearing now is no coincidence, but still, it's mostly fact: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...). Hopefully Apple has the staying power to go amass the same data, but it's an uphill battle.
- ZoFreX 14y agoThe point here isn't whether or not you had a problem. There might be 100s of people reading that post and not replying because they did not have a problem. Without quizzing a representative sample of users, we can't figure out the size and scope of the problem.
- crag 14y agoNo problems in South Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Palm Beach) either. Last I checked we are outside California. Don't make generalized statements unless you can back it up with data.
- bobwaycott 14y ago> the consensus is that the maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else. I've had no issues since I started using the beta around the Southeast US. I've used it from Tennessee to Florida, with turn-by-turn directions around the Atlanta area, to Orlando, all over Disney World, and more. Let's not contribute consensus where consensus isn't due.