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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
by 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 agoGP 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.