Re: Works fine on my ipad
"Only one way to find out ... FIGHT!"
Excellent idea - where's the fight?
Google's maps app for iPhones, iPads and iPods is back less than three months after Apple booted it out of the iOS platform. In that period, the Cupertino giant publicly apologised for replacing its rival's mapping application with its own shoddy satnav-like software; the top exec behind Apple's crap map app, Scott Forstall, …
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Yep, it's a totally stupid story. Before apple maps came out, the reg had a story practically every other week about satnavs doing the same exact thing. It's just flamebait.
The fact is, the underlying data is pretty terrible, since it only gets corrected by actually USING it. Roads that show in ordnance survey maps (or your local equivalent) but are misclassified as more drivable than they really are, or flat out don't exist anymore, are endemic to mapping data in remote areas. Until some yahoo tries to drive it, that information is never going to be corrected.
I look forward to impressive efforts being mounted to troll the inevitable Apple street view cars. Having perfected their art on Google cars, can we anticipate a new level of creativity? This new art form is deserving of awards, and I for one will be eagerly waiting for someone else to scan millions of Apple street view images to find new, outrageous images to provide me with a brief moment of entertainment.
Well, why buy an overpriced lumbering pretence at being a modern car when you can have the real thing? Astra OPC anyone? They had a pale grey one on steel wheels for winter with not too much stick-on wings at my local dealer, took a while to figure out what it was exactly, I knew it looked kinda nice, but... ;)
I actually really wanted an original XJS until I discovered that sadly, they were all crap. Apart from Tom Walkinshaw's racing ones. Which probably weren''t using the newer HE heads as those would have been a B***rd to tune.
and removed the tick from 'track the crap out of me, whilst feeding in me adverts' and i didnt log in to my google account.
As for the outback navigation problems, it should read...
'I nearly died because my family has bred a little too closely, so i am dumb ass country bumpkin, who cannot follow signs or common sense '
>You do realise the current Apple Maps already uses TomTom data
It's worse - Tom Tom has been updating it's PoI to aging TeleAtlas data - which prior to acquistion used it's datasharing agreement with Google Maps to acquire PoI data. Kind of hard to find a charging point or free wifi, but Little Chefs still roam freely across the nation.
The TomTom app is a drain on the battery. It is the only app I have which heats up my iPhone. On hot summer days this can lead to a heat warning message and the phone shuts down.
The Apple app lacks some basic functionality like display of speed and also lacks more advanced functionality like re-routing based on traffic, road-blocks,etc. The dismal maps are not part of the Apple maps app.
So many people are and have been complaining about the iOS maps app. There is little wrong (apart from maybe the missing street view) with the app itself, it's the map data that is screwy, and i have already noticed an improvement with that since it was released, probably due to the large amount of people using it, and reporting errors.
It's nice to have Google maps back, however, having had a bit of a look around, i can see that (much like any other mapping service) it is far from perfect. The most notable is that the area in which one of my friends lives is a new build. On the iOS map, the map still shows the old information, but the satellite photos are up to date. in google maps, the map, and the photos are out of date, but the street view data is much more current.
There are also features missing from the Google app, that may never appear, such as being able to search for a location based on stored contact information. From my point of view, it's going to be a lot easier for Apple to improve their offering, by improving the quality of their maps, than it is for Google to improve theirs by improving the core function of their app.
I tried it this morning - was not 5 minutes away from home when I get to a roundabout - the main map display tells me to turn right and take the 3rd exit - but the quick view display at the top tells me to go straight across. Thankfully it was local to me so I knew which one was correct. But I think I'll stick to Apple Maps when I'm somewhere unfamiliar as so far I've had no issues with that.