So an article about Google Maps returning to iOS is a thinly veiled excuse to demonstrate how brilliant Apple Maps is.
I'm really glad that Apple Maps doesn't render a pavement under the Golden Gate Bridge, but when you're in the UK and it is incapable of finding any local businesses you search for then it's not much fucking use to me. iOS maps is terrible in the UK.
100% agree with you. Although, in a way I think we were all spoilt by the POI data that google has. As an actual map, or a GPS to get you from A to B Apple maps has worked pretty damn well for me in the UK.
But the second I look for a POI, whether it be a take away, school, shop, whatever else anyone can think of then it falls flat on it's face and this is by and far my biggest issue with the update.
I have tried to add this missing info in my own area, as an example I've sent the location of the large Asda Superstore next to me to Apple about three times since the app came out and it still does not show up.
Now I'll admit that Asda is hardly a priority when you have entire towns 40 miles out of place in Australia, but even so they can't have a particularly large team in place adding in data like this.
QFT. Google needed to be told that they couldn't get away with short-changing iOS users.
Reviewers from TheVerge, Engadget and others even say iOS users got a more well-designed Google Maps interface than native-Android users. It ends up being a big win for Apple iPhone users, getting a better Google Maps app then they otherwise might have. Apple did OK.
I suspect that one thing Apple will really catch hell on regarding various comparisons between the Apple and Google version of these two apps is the fact that Google doesn't appear to need a dual-core processor phone just to run a GPS app. The Google version gives turn by turn directions on both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.
That right there is a good enough reason for my wife to download it. It is ridiculous that Apple claims her iPhone 4 isn't capable of this.
Thanks Hill. I saw that earlier but wasn't certain it was a current screen shot. 'preciate the clarification.
EDIT: One other question Hill. Did you swipe up to access more information (such as additional location details, Streetview, etc) to get that "ad" to display or did it appear on the main screen simply by requesting directions?
I think I've answered my own question. It appears you must have requested that rather than it normally displaying on the main navigation screen. Is that correct?
Screw Google. Who want's your privacy invaded? People have already complained about Google's location services figuring out your likely home and work locations.
The best part of Google Maps on iOS is that I won't have to hear the tech pundits whine about the lack of Google maps on iOS. I'm definitely not grooving with the 2x version on the iPad and with the exception of playing with Street View on a rare occasion, I don't see much reason to use this app over the native Apple map, and Waze is much more useful for navigation.
Look at this screenshot:- I wonder how First National Real Estate is there?
Is it an ad, you decide.
Three of their offices are shown by the looks of things, handy to know if you want to buy or sell a house but nowhere near where the actual location is (Off the lower left corner of the map, if you look closely at the top right corner of the ad, you'll see a faint letter 'o' as in the last letter of 'Minto'.), it's more than the distance from the centre of a national park in Victoria to Mildura as it takes less than 1 hour 9 minutes to drive forty miles.
You deliberately picked a new tiny one way road that lasts for what? 300ft or something and doesn't seem to have any physical addresses on. Google does incorrectly consider it an extension of Longhurst Rd either through omission or incorrect user submission, which ironically actually gives Street View data of that area and the Selwyn Ave road sign. http://goo.gl/maps/A1H3P yet other map providers like Bing show the entire area as non existent. However since this road name doesn't exist in Google's database, it uses a search query for your phrase instead, as it should. There's no ad being displayed. Should be noted searching for any other adjacent streets there in the manner you did immediately zooms and locates to the address.
Thanks Hill. I saw that earlier but wasn't certain it was a current screen shot. 'preciate the clarification.
EDIT: One other question Hill. Did you swipe up to access more information (such as additional location details, Streetview, etc) to get that "ad" to display or did it appear on the main screen simply by requesting directions?
It appeared as the result of a failed search, i.e. when Google obviously does not have that location in their data base.
You deliberately picked a new tiny one way road that lasts for what? 300ft or something and doesn't seem to have any physical addresses on.
I'll be near there tomorrow I'll post a "streetview".
Meanwhile I'll take some photo's from the corner of Longhurst and Longhurst, not to be confused with the other corner of Longhurst and Longhurst, seeing as how in that area Google has FOUR Longhurst Roads, when in reality there is only one.
What this all has to do with a real estate agents offices in St Ives, Parramatta and what looks like Balmain or Drummoyne is beyond me.
Google maps is BROKEN, take off the Google goggles of denial.
Apples maps work correctly using exactly the same search query they are spot on, this screenshot proves it.
You obviously don't have any iOS devices to test this on.
Huge step back for me on transit directions; what happened? For me to walk ~3 miles to the office is about 40 minutes. The transit directions had me taking the bus one mile, walking two, then taking the bus another mile. Seems much harder than using the bus that runs directly from start to finish.
Traffic looked worse as well compared to previous version.
When Apple allegedly asked Google to give them turn by turn data for their Maps App, they allegedly declined. If you believe internet gossip, Jragostamight be right.
Fixed for you. Apple has never spoken on this issue and neither has Google. All we have to go on is whispers on the Internet.
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No kidding. What a worthless 'review'
QFT. Google needed to be told that they couldn't get away with short-changing iOS users.
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Originally Posted by Parsec
So an article about Google Maps returning to iOS is a thinly veiled excuse to demonstrate how brilliant Apple Maps is.
I'm really glad that Apple Maps doesn't render a pavement under the Golden Gate Bridge, but when you're in the UK and it is incapable of finding any local businesses you search for then it's not much fucking use to me. iOS maps is terrible in the UK.
100% agree with you. Although, in a way I think we were all spoilt by the POI data that google has. As an actual map, or a GPS to get you from A to B Apple maps has worked pretty damn well for me in the UK.
But the second I look for a POI, whether it be a take away, school, shop, whatever else anyone can think of then it falls flat on it's face and this is by and far my biggest issue with the update.
I have tried to add this missing info in my own area, as an example I've sent the location of the large Asda Superstore next to me to Apple about three times since the app came out and it still does not show up.
Now I'll admit that Asda is hardly a priority when you have entire towns 40 miles out of place in Australia, but even so they can't have a particularly large team in place adding in data like this.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
QFT. Google needed to be told that they couldn't get away with short-changing iOS users.
Reviewers from TheVerge, Engadget and others even say iOS users got a more well-designed Google Maps interface than native-Android users. It ends up being a big win for Apple iPhone users, getting a better Google Maps app then they otherwise might have. Apple did OK.
I suspect that one thing Apple will really catch hell on regarding various comparisons between the Apple and Google version of these two apps is the fact that Google doesn't appear to need a dual-core processor phone just to run a GPS app. The Google version gives turn by turn directions on both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.
That right there is a good enough reason for my wife to download it. It is ridiculous that Apple claims her iPhone 4 isn't capable of this.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Thanks Hill. I saw that earlier but wasn't certain it was a current screen shot. 'preciate the clarification.
EDIT: One other question Hill. Did you swipe up to access more information (such as additional location details, Streetview, etc) to get that "ad" to display or did it appear on the main screen simply by requesting directions?
I think I've answered my own question. It appears you must have requested that rather than it normally displaying on the main navigation screen. Is that correct?
How was Google shortchanging iOS users if they were prohibited from offering a better app?
OK...Knock yourself out with this...this ends all the complaints.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
QFT. Google needed to be told that they couldn't get away with short-changing iOS users.
You realise that the original Maps app was written by Apple, not Google, right? Google had no control to add the features found on Android.
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Originally Posted by zbarsky
Screw Google. Who want's your privacy invaded? People have already complained about Google's location services figuring out your likely home and work locations.
Without thinking, I said no.
Except for Germany, which doesn't have Street View. Which might also be the reason for the few flaws supposedly being there.
Anyone needing a map app to get home from work has other issues than debating on which app to use.
When Apple asked Google to give them turn by turn data for their Maps App, they declined. Jragosta is right.
Originally Posted by hill60
Look at this screenshot:- I wonder how First National Real Estate is there?
Is it an ad, you decide.
Three of their offices are shown by the looks of things, handy to know if you want to buy or sell a house but nowhere near where the actual location is (Off the lower left corner of the map, if you look closely at the top right corner of the ad, you'll see a faint letter 'o' as in the last letter of 'Minto'.), it's more than the distance from the centre of a national park in Victoria to Mildura as it takes less than 1 hour 9 minutes to drive forty miles.
You deliberately picked a new tiny one way road that lasts for what? 300ft or something and doesn't seem to have any physical addresses on. Google does incorrectly consider it an extension of Longhurst Rd either through omission or incorrect user submission, which ironically actually gives Street View data of that area and the Selwyn Ave road sign. http://goo.gl/maps/A1H3P yet other map providers like Bing show the entire area as non existent. However since this road name doesn't exist in Google's database, it uses a search query for your phrase instead, as it should. There's no ad being displayed. Should be noted searching for any other adjacent streets there in the manner you did immediately zooms and locates to the address.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Thanks Hill. I saw that earlier but wasn't certain it was a current screen shot. 'preciate the clarification.
EDIT: One other question Hill. Did you swipe up to access more information (such as additional location details, Streetview, etc) to get that "ad" to display or did it appear on the main screen simply by requesting directions?
It appeared as the result of a failed search, i.e. when Google obviously does not have that location in their data base.
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Originally Posted by thataveragejoe
You deliberately picked a new tiny one way road that lasts for what? 300ft or something and doesn't seem to have any physical addresses on.
I'll be near there tomorrow I'll post a "streetview".
Meanwhile I'll take some photo's from the corner of Longhurst and Longhurst, not to be confused with the other corner of Longhurst and Longhurst, seeing as how in that area Google has FOUR Longhurst Roads, when in reality there is only one.
What this all has to do with a real estate agents offices in St Ives, Parramatta and what looks like Balmain or Drummoyne is beyond me.
Google maps is BROKEN, take off the Google goggles of denial.
Apples maps work correctly using exactly the same search query they are spot on, this screenshot proves it.
You obviously don't have any iOS devices to test this on.
How to you get streetview ???
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
When Apple asked Google to give them turn by turn data for their Maps App, they declined. Jragosta is right.
You should preface that with "according to rumors".
Traffic looked worse as well compared to previous version.
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
When Apple allegedly asked Google to give them turn by turn data for their Maps App, they allegedly declined. If you believe internet gossip, Jragosta might be right.
Fixed for you. Apple has never spoken on this issue and neither has Google. All we have to go on is whispers on the Internet.