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is Apple maps problem strictly an international issue or do most people find it lacking in the US too ?

• philfreo 14y ago
  The data is pretty old/bad in a lot of cases in the US also.
• ozten 14y ago
  I've had bad luck in Seattle and Oahu HI. I now start with Google maps via Safari and only resort to using the Maps app if I need my location to show up as fast as possible.
• saturdaysaint 14y ago
  Not to minimize other people's issues, but in (public transport-poor) Michigan it's been an almost unmitigated win. The vector-based maps load instantly, the UI is fantastic, it's beautifully integrated with the OS (in the lockscreen, with Siri, etc.), and %98 of the POI's and pathfinding are great. I've run into a handful of bad POI's and/or buggy pathfinding, but many of those were fixed. There's no way I'd want to go back to iOS 5's maps, and I imagine most people in suburbia, at least, feel the same way.
  • danso 14y ago
    To be fair, google maps has had vector maps but did not get to implement them in their iOS version. In any case, Apple is in the Bay Area, where they were presumably testing the product on a continual basis. There's no excuse to have the metro view be a shitshow and tell consumers that they're getting a better product