I live in a small\ruralish area so that's probably why. I think most the people using it live in a metropolitan area. Which seems to be Apple's focus anyways.Every time...that’s awful...
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Can you give any real examples without giving your exact location that you know are incorrect directions?
Idaho had the same exact mapping as the rest of the US and I just find it VERY hard to believe that every time you go out, it is giving you wrong directions.
Are you referring to POI’s being in the wrong spot/marked incorrectly?
I concur. Let us see if we can help narrow down your problems so we can get Apple to fix them.
Using Apple Maps on my trip to Sedona (Az).
Interesting issue: ran through a portion of Oak Creek Canyon out here where there is no cell signal.
Directions failed to pick back up once I got back into data range about 10 minutes later. On a side note, Google Maps did pick back up on my tablet. Actually GM I suspect was using predownloaded data as this was a planned trip with multiple points.
Other than that the only complaint was AM’s inability to plan/execute a multi point trip
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Doing a trip later this morning to a back country lake ... I’ll let you know how each does.
Interesting issue: ran through a portion of Oak Creek Canyon out here where there is no cell signal.
Directions failed to pick back up once I got back into data range about 10 minutes later. On a side note, Google Maps did pick back up on my tablet. Actually GM I suspect was using predownloaded data as this was a planned trip with multiple points.
Other than that the only complaint was AM’s inability to plan/execute a multi point trip
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Doing a trip later this morning to a back country lake ... I’ll let you know how each does.
Using Apple Maps on my trip to Sedona (Az).
Interesting issue: ran through a portion of Oak Creek Canyon out here where there is no cell signal.
Directions failed to pick back up once I got back into data range about 10 minutes later. On a side note, Google Maps did pick back up on my tablet. Actually GM I suspect was using predownloaded data as this was a planned trip with multiple points.
Other than that the only complaint was AM’s inability to plan/execute a multi point trip
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Doing a trip later this morning to a back country lake ... I’ll let you know how each does.
They really need to add this...multiple waypoints.
I travel to a chicken farm every few weeks about 1/2 hour from my house and there is no cell signal for about 3-5 miles around the farm. It’s been really bad lately about picking up my request for directions when I get back into a signal....like, it’s actually been worse the past 3 months.
Getting ready to head out.... pulled up directions in both AM and GM ... AM is strange
It appears that AM is missing some of the local area roads.
It appears that AM is missing some of the local area roads.
I’ll say the Spokane Wa area, doesn’t really narrow it down. But everything up here is in a pretty good drive-able distance.
To be fair I don’t use maps (Apple or Google) very often at all. I know my way extremely well, but when I’m going to a new place that I just haven’t had a reason to drive to is when I use it. Some of the rural areas up here are notorious for not having address numbers anywhere.
Apple maps just doesn’t move from the starting point is what has been happening. Almost like my location gets stuck. So not necessarily getting me “lost” (though one time it kept telling me to turn around no matter which way I went, lol).
Possibly but I google works. I haven’t screwed with Apple Maps since I got my new phone (iPhone SE 2020). And my old iPhone 7 is what’s running iOS 14, and there isn’t a simcard in it to be able to use maps on it.
Update:
Went on my drive to a loc al area lake.
GM had no issues.
AM ... when I got to a road that was missing on AM, the indicator got stuck. Then it would occasionally bounce to my actual location, then bounce back and be stuck. Once I reached the lake, it recalculated and picked me up at the start of the lake.
AM needs a better way to handle roads that “don’t exist” for AM.
After you posted those screenshots the other day, I went into Apple Maps to check out the same area. I noticed a lot of those little roads appeared to be drawn much thinner than any road I've ever seen on Apple Maps, and they wouldn't even appear unless I zoomed in really far. Are these what Apple Maps considers "dirt roads"?
So what you're saying is that some of these park roads don't appear on new Apple Maps at all? So when you drive on them, the lack of a road, coupled with perhaps poor cell service in the area, makes Apple Maps unaware of your current location?
I sort of experience similar issues. My apartment building's driveway leading to the indoor garage is not mapped. When I turn off the road onto the driveway, Apple Maps will typically follow me correctly, even though I'm off road. Perhaps because the cell service and GPS signals are fairly strong in my area. Even when I'm driving through the garage, Apple Maps still tracks me fairly well.
Although once in a blue moon, when I turn into my driveway, Apple Maps will jump me over to the nearest parallel road. That's rare, though.
I’m able to see it no matter the zoom level. New land masses! Cool! Now to get there before other people find out about it 😂😂😂 What better place to social distance!
Wasn‘t there an issue sort of like this with Michigan a while back? Where land that didn’t actually exist was being shown on the map? I could swear I remember something like that with the UP.
These are what they call “forest roads” and are mainbtained by the state forest service. Call most a 2 lane graded road. Some show well but others ... What I had hoped AM would do is keep my position even if a road is not apparent.
Ran into a strange issue here in Sedona Az.
Driving from the resort I’m at to a shop in town (the other was getting a massage) I plugges diections into AM and let it guide me.
Epic failure.
Here is the driving directions given by AM:
Actual directions
400 feet veer left
150 feet turn right
300 feet trun right
300 feet turn left
50 feet turn right onto Frontage road
800 feet turn left onto Sunset Hills Dr
250 feet trun left onto ST Rte 89A
3.8 miles turn left onto Torilla
300 feet arrive at destination.
Too make things worse, the address is wrong. I tried this 2x, first on dropping off, 2nd on picking up, once I turned onto the Frontage Road, the voice stppped working. Everything else worked except the voice. It cut out the same point on both drives.
This address listed in AM actually belongs to Sedona Landscaping.
Here is the GM directions. These are not exactly the same but do work - they take another path out of the resort area.
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I’ll put this together and report a correction soon....
Driving from the resort I’m at to a shop in town (the other was getting a massage) I plugges diections into AM and let it guide me.
Epic failure.
Here is the driving directions given by AM:
Actual directions
400 feet veer left
150 feet turn right
300 feet trun right
300 feet turn left
50 feet turn right onto Frontage road
800 feet turn left onto Sunset Hills Dr
250 feet trun left onto ST Rte 89A
3.8 miles turn left onto Torilla
300 feet arrive at destination.
Too make things worse, the address is wrong. I tried this 2x, first on dropping off, 2nd on picking up, once I turned onto the Frontage Road, the voice stppped working. Everything else worked except the voice. It cut out the same point on both drives.
This address listed in AM actually belongs to Sedona Landscaping.
Here is the GM directions. These are not exactly the same but do work - they take another path out of the resort area.
ProMax 14 db2
I’ll put this together and report a correction soon....
Did anyone else read this as “NAWTI Spa” at first?? Just me?
In Apple’s defense, from NAMTI’s own website....the wrong address is actually listed next to the “correct” one on Tortilla Dr (yet both maps shown show the Tortilla Dr. location?)
...and I want to live on a street called Tortilla Dr., but that info is irrelevant to this post...
Looks like this has been corrected now. I'm no longer seeing it.
Did anyone else read this as “NAWTI Spa” at first?? Just me?
In Apple’s defense, from NAMTI’s own website....the wrong address is actually listed next to the “correct” one on Tortilla Dr (yet both maps shown show the Tortilla Dr. location?)
...and I want to live on a street called Tortilla Dr., but that info is irrelevant to this post...
Tortilla is the actual location. Drove by the other local and it is a landscaping business and local area tours.
Still not sure why the vocals cut out in Directions.
btw - other half says the massage was awesome!!!!
Too bad this last weekend turned into a heat wave. 107F. WTH?