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Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure how much better Apple could have made Maps before launching it. I stopped trying to use Apple Maps here in Warsaw, Poland,

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not sure how much better Apple could have made Maps before launching it. I stopped trying to use Apple Maps here in Warsaw, Poland, simply because they get so many of the basics wrong. Any official document lists my street name as Skorochód-Majewskiego. Even Nokia's new offering can find it. Apple though? Nope, not even anything in the autocomplete list. The only match occurs if you type in the full Walentego Skorochód-Majewskiego. This is true for many streets here. So on that level, their offering is useless. There were loads of other bizarre issues at launch - loads of parks had their names written in what looked like Chinese characters. Out of sheer annoyance, I went through and marked them all, not expecting much, and sure enough, three weeks later, the names started to clear up. And this is without going into how obscenely ridiculous it was to see Warsaw's main airport being marked with the German word "Flughafen" in its title.

mikeryan 14y ago
Even Nokia's new offering can find it. Apple though? Nope. Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space.
- mootothemax 14y ago
  Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space. I'm not sure that the data's to blame. For comparison, I've just given CoPilot Live a try with a couple of other streets (Korotyńskiego and Dickensa to be precise), and the UI presented them to without any difficulties. These aren't new streets, they're on every map out there, and I'm convinced that this is a programming issue of not handling the data correctly. It's not even a case of doing cleverness with letters such as ń or ó - it's a complete failure altogether.
gonzo 14y ago
I was in Warsaw a couple weeks ago, and it worked fine, but I'm an English speaker, so not as sensitive to things like "Flughafen".

mikeryan 14y ago

Even Nokia's new offering can find it. Apple though? Nope. Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space.

mootothemax 14y ago
Nokia owns Navteq, which is one of the premier providers of GIS data. They're actually better positioned then Apple in this space. I'm not sure that the data's to blame. For comparison, I've just given CoPilot Live a try with a couple of other streets (Korotyńskiego and Dickensa to be precise), and the UI presented them to without any difficulties. These aren't new streets, they're on every map out there, and I'm convinced that this is a programming issue of not handling the data correctly. It's not even a case of doing cleverness with letters such as ń or ó - it's a complete failure altogether.

gonzo 14y ago

I was in Warsaw a couple weeks ago, and it worked fine, but I'm an English speaker, so not as sensitive to things like "Flughafen".