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Apple maps vs Google maps?
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I was about to post screenshots of apple maps and google maps, showing the access road to my new build (4 years ago) house, which would explain the main reason I don't use apple maps... only to find it's been fixed, and they now recognise that the roads actually join! It only took google 3 months, last time I checked apple maps was after 3 years and no update. Unfortunately there's more work going on, so it'll all change in a couple of months. I might check more often to see how quickly they both update (I did report the issues to both shortly after moving in).
Google maps still has two killer features however - street view, and my maps. I created a map showing the location of my company's sites (1072 in Scotland) which I shared with my colleagues. Can apple maps do that, or anything remotely similar?
Google maps still has two killer features however - street view, and my maps. I created a map showing the location of my company's sites (1072 in Scotland) which I shared with my colleagues. Can apple maps do that, or anything remotely similar?
I knew that because if I driv fast any of my mapping software tells me to turn late. By the time GPS triangulated position, map updates, I am at the intersection just as it tells me to turn.
I have learned to slow as I come up on turns, especially at night.
No, not really. Google purchased Waze, but in many ways they are quite different. Google Maps is far superior to Waze for routing and navigation, UI, etc. But Waze has the crowd sourced alerts which put it far above Google in my use, and also the traffic re-navigation. It's weirdly typical of Google to have multiple overlapping apps, instead of just integrating them into a single app.
Back to the original topic, I don't mind Apple Maps for navigation for driving, although they are far from my first choice. But for walking directions Apple Maps is terrible, just terrible. Whenever I use it I get placed across the street, or if in a tight city like NY it will place me on the adjacent street! It doesn't show you which direction you are walking in, resulting in a lot of user error trying to figure out which direction to walk in. Also it's dark mode is goofy, it's not time of day based but rather based on lighting. So you can be walking around at night and it will be in dark mode, but if you walk under a streetlamp it goes back to light mode, weird.