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Apple Maps is pretty fantastic
by fckgw 6mo ago
Apple Maps is pretty fantastic
- jdalgetty 6mo agoI haven't used google maps in years.
- JohnMakin 6mo agoit was far inferior to its competitor when it was released
- mikestew 6mo agoThat was, what, twelve years ago? Hardly seems relevant.
- xyst 6mo agoIt’s okay. It’s still subpar and barely keeping pace with Gmaps
- jonhohle 6mo agoOn macOS there are so many basic things you’d want to do - share itineraries, annotate places, keep lists of things, but there’s not even a document concept. With the exception of guides, anything you do is ephemeral. It’s excellent at planning a route, but doing anything with that route, including getting back to it later is useless.
- dlahoda 6mo ago[flagged]
- Spooky23 6mo agoAll true, but you have to measure it against how enshitified Google Maps has become.
- bravoetch 6mo agoI don't agree with that assertion. Just because google maps has become one thing, doesn't excuse Apple maps flaws. They can exist on their merits.
- cogogo 6mo agoI primarily use Apple maps and bounce back to google sometimes because I think the browser experience is so much better and it is faster to just type my terms right into ironically safari. Every time I do I think it is still simpler and snappier. Especially true if I have recently tried to use the MacOS maps app… that never behaves how I would imagine it should if I go beyond a simple location search. There are things about the ios app that make me crazy too. No qualms about the maps themselves these days.
- trinix912 6mo agoJust a week ago I could still create a Google Docs "map" document, add spots, share it with friends who could collaborate from any (incl. non-Apple) device... It's just a pain to do this with Apple Maps compared to how easy and straightforward it is with Google Maps. You can also still import desktop Google Earth bookmark files.
- wpm 6mo agoThe app on macOS is terrible, like all Catalyst/SwiftUI ports. Fisher-Price software.
- lotsofpulp 6mo agoAnd they just added ads.
- drob518 6mo agoIt’s gotten a lot better, but I still find the address database better in Google Maps, which helps when you have only a fragment of an address. I also find that the Apple Maps database has a lot of roads that read the same. For instance, in Texas where I live, we have a lot of “Ranch Roads” that are numbered. Think of them like state highways in other state (which we also have; don’t ask). For whatever reason, most of the Ranch Roads are spoken by Maps as “Ranch Road,” not with the number. So, if you have a spot where multiple Ranch Roads intersect, Maps will just say “turn left on Ranch Road” instead of “turn left on Ranch Road 123.” It’s tremendous annoying. In another state, imagine it saying “turn left on Interstate,” without a number. Anyway, Google Maps does better.
- projektfu 6mo agoGoogle Maps often picks the non-idiomatic thing. It'll say the road name when no sign uses that, and it's a US highway that you have been following for a while. Or it will tell you the state highway number when it is a major named artery, and nobody knows that it is a state highway at that point or uses the highway number. This makes it hard to know if it is carrying you along on the same route or if it has come up with one of its weird shortcuts to save 1 minute.
- Affric 6mo agoHere in Australia Apple Maps names everywhere by local council, which isn’t used at all, we use localities. I have reported this as a bug repeatedly but they just keep at it. It just means nothing here except who you pay to collect the bins.
- drob518 6mo agoYep, that’s sometimes true as well.
- paradox460 6mo agoSalt Lake City roads are amusing "Turn right on East one hundred and twenty three thousand South"
- ncruces 6mo agoMaybe elsewhere it is. Here, it's terrible. In general, for all it benefits from globalization, Apple disappoints on global markets.
- pityJuke 6mo ago90% of my usage of it is because it actually displays the map on my Watch, whereas Google Maps & Citymapper only show directions. If it weren't for that, I'd use Citymapper for practically everything.
- cageface 6mo agoIn the US. In many other countries it's borderline useless.