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Much better than Apple Maps, but still: * The Hayward Gallery is in the wrong place: http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery--826gcpuq-b9a

by mjs 14y ago

Much better than Apple Maps, but still: * The Hayward Gallery is in the wrong place: http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery--826gcpuq-b9a7bec242fe48ccac0d273c98487159 http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery... * Searching for "Dover Castle" goes to the Castle in Dover rather than the pub <500m away. (There is a drop-down list which has the match I want, though.) And the non-Retina resolution tiles are annoying. Do Nokia's high-resolution phones get the same tiles?

stcredzero 14y ago
Still has my closest grocery store listed as "Albertson's." At least it found the store, which took some coaxing from Apple Maps. It also finds 1 California Street in SF, which Apple Maps failed at a few weeks ago. I note that the pinch gesture behaves in an atypical way. It's more of a "pure zoom" and has no scroll at all, which is kind of a pain.
weiran 14y ago
How is it much better than Apple's maps app? It's just a thin wrapper over Nokia's web site (here.net), and for my location the data is worse and there's no satellite imagery at all. Directions are far more limited (public transport routing isn't even available in the UK) and the UI completely unintuitive (how do I start a route?) I would welcome a superior maps app to Apple, however just putting a thin wrapper over your existing website isn't going to cut the mustard compared with a slick and native app like Apple's. I'm not sure even Google can match Apple's maps experience, although their superiority with data will make the bigger difference.
- mdasen 14y ago
  how do I start a route? This bugged me for a while until I realised that they don't do driving navigation. There's a purple button with an arrow (play button) when you're in walking mode that lets you start voice navigation. It's very disappointing.

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Much better than Apple Maps, but still: * The Hayward Gallery is in the wrong place: http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery--826gcpuq-b9a

by mjs 14y ago

stcredzero 14y ago
Still has my closest grocery store listed as "Albertson's." At least it found the store, which took some coaxing from Apple Maps. It also finds 1 California Street in SF, which Apple Maps failed at a few weeks ago. I note that the pinch gesture behaves in an atypical way. It's more of a "pure zoom" and has no scroll at all, which is kind of a pain.
weiran 14y ago
How is it much better than Apple's maps app? It's just a thin wrapper over Nokia's web site (here.net), and for my location the data is worse and there's no satellite imagery at all. Directions are far more limited (public transport routing isn't even available in the UK) and the UI completely unintuitive (how do I start a route?) I would welcome a superior maps app to Apple, however just putting a thin wrapper over your existing website isn't going to cut the mustard compared with a slick and native app like Apple's. I'm not sure even Google can match Apple's maps experience, although their superiority with data will make the bigger difference.
- mdasen 14y ago
  how do I start a route? This bugged me for a while until I realised that they don't do driving navigation. There's a purple button with an arrow (play button) when you're in walking mode that lets you start voice navigation. It's very disappointing.