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Just a step back for perspective comment: "I don’t have a car, so the lack of public transportation in Apple’s Maps app pretty much makes it useless to me" Ap

by netcan 14y ago

Just a step back for perspective comment: "I don’t have a car, so the lack of public transportation in Apple’s Maps app pretty much makes it useless to me" Apple’s Maps app is still a searchable, zoomable easy to use map of the whole world that knows where you are! A few years ago this would have been the most comprehensive, user friendly anyone had ever seen. We are all characters in a Louise CK bit. 5 minutes between discovering some incredible futuristic technology that we didn't know was possible to feeling like we deserve it and getting angry at the incompetence when it doesn't work perfectly.

sgdesign 14y ago
Umm, all the fancy 3D in the world won't really help me if my maps app can't tell me how to get from point A to point B. This is not a case of "it doesn't work perfectly", it's a case of "it doesn't work at all" (for my use case, at least).
- Terretta 14y ago
  GP said nothing about 3D. I took zoomable to mean vector. Also, I have used both (iOS 6 Apple Maps, iOS 5 Google Maps) side by side heavily in Rome (urban) and Sabine Hills (countryside), and found Apple Maps far faster to navigate, easier to find my place and food POIs as a pedestrian, and noted the vaunted iOS 5 Maps had no transit knowledge whatsoever, neither busses, nor trams, not even metro. (I preferred Navigon over either of them for driving.) Similar comparisons hold true in Manhattan (except of course it does support transit as long as you're not underground), rural western North Carolina, and SoCal. Seems evident the “Apple Maps are Useless!” meme is overblown. iPhone owners were missing turn by turn for driving ("point a to point b"), and iOS 6 maps provided that. It had to be done.
jinushaun 14y ago
The tiles are often wrong or lack sufficient detail. So no, you can simply use Apple Maps as a replacement for paper maps. It's bad in the suburbs and really bad in rural areas. Then there is also the issue of bad searches, which is quite common from my experience, where dots are in the wrong place or POI data is outdated.
jug6ernaut 14y ago
Should we also compare iOS to what Android was "A few years ago"? Just food for thought... Ill be the first one to say my distaste for iOS/iPhone, but the point is here that these products must be compared to what the are competing against. Sure the iOS Maps app is beautiful in its own right, but compared to Google Maps it appears to be inferior(i am going of reports and downloads, as i have no used ether iOS Maps or iOS Google Maps).

by netcan 14y ago

sgdesign 14y ago

Umm, all the fancy 3D in the world won't really help me if my maps app can't tell me how to get from point A to point B. This is not a case of "it doesn't work perfectly", it's a case of "it doesn't work at all" (for my use case, at least).

Terretta 14y ago
GP said nothing about 3D. I took zoomable to mean vector. Also, I have used both (iOS 6 Apple Maps, iOS 5 Google Maps) side by side heavily in Rome (urban) and Sabine Hills (countryside), and found Apple Maps far faster to navigate, easier to find my place and food POIs as a pedestrian, and noted the vaunted iOS 5 Maps had no transit knowledge whatsoever, neither busses, nor trams, not even metro. (I preferred Navigon over either of them for driving.) Similar comparisons hold true in Manhattan (except of course it does support transit as long as you're not underground), rural western North Carolina, and SoCal. Seems evident the “Apple Maps are Useless!” meme is overblown. iPhone owners were missing turn by turn for driving ("point a to point b"), and iOS 6 maps provided that. It had to be done.

jinushaun 14y ago

The tiles are often wrong or lack sufficient detail. So no, you can simply use Apple Maps as a replacement for paper maps. It's bad in the suburbs and really bad in rural areas. Then there is also the issue of bad searches, which is quite common from my experience, where dots are in the wrong place or POI data is outdated.

jug6ernaut 14y ago

Should we also compare iOS to what Android was "A few years ago"? Just food for thought... Ill be the first one to say my distaste for iOS/iPhone, but the point is here that these products must be compared to what the are competing against. Sure the iOS Maps app is beautiful in its own right, but compared to Google Maps it appears to be inferior(i am going of reports and downloads, as i have no used ether iOS Maps or iOS Google Maps).