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The Google Maps product really is lacking outside of the United States. I was down in Chile's Lake District last week, and Google totally failed me, both in Pu
by gyardley 12y ago
The Google Maps product really is lacking outside of the United States.
I was down in Chile's Lake District last week, and Google totally failed me, both in Pucón and Panguipulli. These are not particularly tiny towns - in fact, Pucón is a major tourist destination. But Google was completely lacking in street information for both places. I ended up having to use Bing.
Google wasn't even second - both Nokia's HERE Maps (which powers Yahoo) and Apple's map product were better (although Apple was still pretty atrocious).
Here's a couple of links for comparison - Pucón in Google Maps (http://goo.gl/maps/rm1D9 http://goo.gl/maps/rm1D9) vs Pucón in Bing Maps (http://binged.it/1gR5K55 http://binged.it/1gR5K55). If Bing Maps had a dedicated iOS application, I'd just switch permanently.
- surana90 12y agoI so agree with you.I was in Puerto Natales, Chile and it completely failed me. Baffled.
- dublinben 12y agoFor the sake of completeness, here's the same location on OpenStreetMap. It's similar to Bing, if not even better. http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=-39.277500%2C-71.971100#map=15/-39.2774/-71.9765 http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=-39.277500%2C-71.9...
- milliams 12y agoI quite like using Geofabrik's MapCompare tool for things like this. For example, take a look at http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/-39.2756/-71.9824&num=4&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map&mt2=bing-map&mt3=nokia-map http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/-39.2756/-71.9824&num=4&mt0...
- gyardley 12y agoThat's awesome! Thanks for the link.