One would think Google had a 100 year head start on Apple. They have text message bubbles for street names, really?
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Deleting Maps App and Installing Google Maps
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Why is it ludicrous? There is no standard URL scheme for sending addresses to apps. What is Apple to do? How would it send the data to google maps? They could hardcore Gmaps current custom scheme now, but that's changed once before.
Might change in later betas or when iOS 10 releases. Could just be that currently, the ability to change the default action has not been made available to us, which is why deleting stock apps was not really a big thing in the keynote. Apple are not totally forthcoming on things like this when they're not fully ready, so of course there's been no confirmation.
Google Maps still shows my house as a big field, which it was in 2000, but not when it was built and we bought it in 2002. Over the last 3 years, multiple reports sent to Google to fix this, but no joy.
Well its kind of funny that Apple is all about health yet Apple Maps doesn't show cycling or biking routes like Google Maps does. Cycling maps are nice if your on a motorcycle and want to take the back roads. Don't get me wrong I almost always use Apple Maps the only solution is to use "walk".
That's unfortunate. Google's map images have been updated just about every 2-3 years where I live, so I've never had that issue.
It's a poor effort when Apple Maps image has been update at least 3 times since it launched, which we can tell due to the other properties built nearby. Google maps can't navigate to us properly, just has a paddy wanting you to drive into the post office, but Apple Maps doesn't have this same issue.
Which shows that neither are perfect.
When I first used apple maps it tried to direct me to drive into a field by telling me to turn right when the correct and only possible turn was left. After that I stopped using it. A while later I decided to see if it was any better, and it told me to drive down railroad tracks. After that I was done with it. My wife uses it sometimes, and it generally seems to choose longer routes than Google maps does to go between the same two points.
the two maps that the man from Texas posted are most telling.
that texas. for the USA that is indeed rather telling. that level of difference within the USA is simply amazing.
for us who live abroad, in many countries, that difference in the two maps is what we live with.
using google maps instead of apple maps has brought me more and more into google apps in general. even been using Chrome more than Safari these days.
are there no more maps companies that apple could buy?
i have never criticized apple's management but maps is fundamental for what an operating system is required to be good at.
i wonder if apple is thinking of pulling the plug on maps and declaring google the winner. is apple so far behind that they can ever really catch up?[/QUOTE]
that texas. for the USA that is indeed rather telling. that level of difference within the USA is simply amazing.
for us who live abroad, in many countries, that difference in the two maps is what we live with.
using google maps instead of apple maps has brought me more and more into google apps in general. even been using Chrome more than Safari these days.
are there no more maps companies that apple could buy?
i have never criticized apple's management but maps is fundamental for what an operating system is required to be good at.
i wonder if apple is thinking of pulling the plug on maps and declaring google the winner. is apple so far behind that they can ever really catch up?[/QUOTE]
Isn's this a new feature now available in Apple Maps for iOS 10? I believe I have used it at least once already.
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Its the same problem with where I work. A road was redone a long time ago and Apple Maps does not show it. I have submitted reports for it numerous times yet nothing has changed. It is odd because when I submit reports for other changes like POI details or closings etc they seem to update it rather quickly and send me a notification when changed. Unfortunately getting a road changed on the map seems to be beyond their abilities.
Um.
On an Android phone you can tell it the default app for email, maps, etc.
I am pretty sure Apple is smart enough to let US pick which app we want to use for things by default.
They just CHOOSE not to.
Waze is great but it also has its shortcomings like having you make a thousand rights and lefts to save a minute.
Yours is an interesting version of what really happened. The facts are that Apple signed a contract for a particular version of Maps from Google that they integrated with the phone that was pretty much fixed. Not sure if it was a two or three year contract but when the contract was coming to an end Apple refused to pay more for an updated version of Google Maps and decided they could save money and do it just as well. We know how that turned out. Google maps on the iPhone was not getting updates because that is what Apple had contracted for and integrated with their system.
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Or even better try "Here" In my view on of the best navigation systems for the phone and it uses off line data and is completely free. This was originally owned by Nokia but was bought by a consortium of Car manufacturers including BMW and Mercedes Benz.
Thats partly right, Google also wanted access to user information, that Apple wasn't prepared to give.
How is this even a debate/topic? Google Maps is obviously more fully featured and robust, and more accurate for the majority of situations.
Not for me in my area. Thanks for deciding for everyone though.
I live a bit West of the South/West corner of an intersection. Apple maps locates my address about 200 feet East of where it is, at the eastern corner of my building. Does not seem like a big deal, except that my streer is a divided road for about those 200 feet. Coming from the East, Apple maps always routes me South a block, West a block and then East on my street. Google maps locates the address in the middle of the building. Always routes me correctly.
I just don't trust the Apple routing.
I just don't trust the Apple routing.
ok, maybe in your area, Apple Maps is more accurate, but it doesn't change the fact the Google Maps is more robust, with more features. Also, in most reported areas, Google Maps in more accurate.
Google maps is still better, but iOS 10 pushes Apple maps forward by leaps and bounds. It recommends faster routes now, lets you pan and preview the route, and hooks into parkopedia for parking locations, which is a major oversight that google doesn't include.
I still use google mostly, but apple maps is quickly catching up.
Apple Maps more accurate AND robust in my area than Google maps. If you're going to quote my post, don't then alter what I've said.
Google maps navigation tries to send you 2 miles away when going to my road, despite multiple notifications from lots of people to Google to fix it over the last 6 years. Satellite view shows an image from about 15 years ago, when the housing estate didn't exist, again this has been reported multiple times over the years from many people in the area. Apple Maps has been updated at least twice in the last 2 years, as we can tell due to a couple of new roads that only were finished 9 months ago being show on satellite view 6 months ago.
Also, apparently the pub that's half a mile away, Google Maps says is 3 doors down. Apple Maps has this correct.
It's funny seeing people praising google Maps as infallible, it's not. Apple Maps aren't either, but at least they're improving constantly, even in my area, when Google Maps has not had any development in the entire time Apple Maps has been available.
How about posting side by side comparisons to show that your experience is different from what most see with Apple maps.
Are you sure you reside in Singapore? Because in this country, Apple absolutely pales in comparison to Google Maps. The competition is not even close. It wasn't close in 2012, and it sure as hell isn't close in 2016. I give credit to Apple for making the effort to issue improvements to their mapping data here, but they still have a very long way to go before they are even on par with Google Maps. The amount of missing POIs and incorrect geographical locations in Apple Maps are staggering here in Singapore.
There's no such thing as a perfect/totally correct map in this world. Google has been in the mapping businesses for years before Apple even ventured in, and provides me with correct data and places 99% of the time when I need it to. It seems like the guys over at Cupertino would rather invest their efforts in fancy Flyovers rather than going the extra mile to ensure their POIs and terrain/roads are accurate, which are arguably the more important aspects of a mapping service.
Apple Maps may be accurate in the US and UK, but they need to put in a whole lot of work into updating their data in my country before I will even consider using it. A whole lot of work.