Yesterday I just discovered that Milan in Italy is in flyover, and it looks great! It's actually a pretty small area, but it loads really fast because of that. On the other side, Los Angeles is such a huge area that it loads slower and has less detail.
I just did a comparison during the weekend of Apple Maps on my iPad3 and Nokia Maps on my Lumia 800 (and N8) and I can say it is absolutely no competition.
Apple still has a way to go before it is a match. This has nothing to do with the accuracy of the maps, just the usefulness as a real car navigator.
The Nokia Maps actually provides real car navigation features such as speed, time/distance till destination, speed camera warnings, speed limit information, lane guidance, exit ramp numbers.
Also, while the Nokia Maps displayed side roads for context the iPad had just a single highway stretching ahead and just the one large info panel at the top. What a total waste of screen space.
About the only thing that was better was that the iPad screen updates are a bit smoother.
I also wish I could turn off the announcing of street names. iOS makes a total mess of Finnish street names when speaking English.
Hey Nokia maps fan dude, you can play my puzzle game too.
Find Selwyn Avenue, Minto, NSW Australia (not in the USA)
It's harder for you, at least the street exists in Google maps although it's misnamed.
I love how Apple fanboys try hard to find zones where apple maps works and others don't, when it's actually very easy to find a zone that's best on google or nokia.
That place in Australia is almost completely empty AND the few homes there are just for display.
Where's the traffic? They only show red right now for traffic. I've submitted at least a dozen "problem" tickets about the lack of green/yellow/red traffic as that is a complete deal breaker for me. Whenever I travel using the iOS 6 maps I put the nagivation in the background and fire up mapquest so I can see the traffic. It's really easy to implement so I have no idea why Apple hasn't fixed this yet but even my wife is about to call it quits because of that.
I went to TomTom/TeleAtlas, found the street and copied coordinates, then pasted them into Google Maps. I've not checked to see how the other poster found it in Streetview. Anyway, that's proof enough for me that Apple Maps is more accurate than anything from Bing/Navteq/Google.
I went to TomTom/TeleAtlas, found the street and copied coordinates, then pasted them into Google Maps. I've not checked to see how the other poster found it in Streetview. Anyway, that's proof enough for me that Apple Maps is more accurate than anything from Bing/Navteq/Google.
Nope, it proves that these other maps aren't as perfect as some would have us believe.
Where's the traffic? They only show red right now for traffic. I've submitted at least a dozen "problem" tickets about the lack of green/yellow/red traffic as that is a complete deal breaker for me. Whenever I travel using the iOS 6 maps I put the nagivation in the background and fire up mapquest so I can see the traffic. It's really easy to implement so I have no idea why Apple hasn't fixed this yet but even my wife is about to call it quits because of that.
Apple should leave the traffic exactly how it is now. Google Maps traffic is meaningless since every single road constantly flashes red every three seconds.
Google's Streetview images for that area are labeled as 2011.
They also seem to contain a mysterious space time discontinuum, if you follow the street view up Selwyn Avenue (or Longhurst Road as Google call it, not to be confused with Longhurst Road, Longhurst Road or the other Longhurst Road) then when you enter into Perisher, you are suddenly flung onto Eagleview Road...
...cue the twilight zone music.
This little area is way more entertaining than some park in Manhattan or Brooklyn or wherever it was that was in that Google iLost Ad.
Nope, it proves that these other maps aren't as perfect as some would have us believe.
Sure no map is perfect, no one actually said that.
I just want better support for non-american cities. Apple, Google, everyone concentrate their efforts on the US, which is normal, but other countries represent a lot of their sales.
This doesn't apply just to maps, but to Siri too, like for searching a movie playing nearby.
Sure no map is perfect, no one actually said that.
I just want better support for non-american cities. Apple, Google, everyone concentrate their efforts on the US, which is normal, but other countries represent a lot of their sales.
This doesn't apply just to maps, but to Siri too, like for searching a movie playing nearby.
I'm not aware of Motorola Mobility posting anything other than to their own Google+ page. Did you see an ad placed by Moto somewhere else? Perhaps they did make it into an ad somewhere.
I'm not aware of Motorola Mobility posting anything other than to their own Google+ page. Did you see an ad placed by Moto somewhere else? Perhaps they did make it into an ad somewhere.
Sounds like some twitter folk made it a hashtag, or at least I think that's what they call it. I seldom bother with Twitter anymore tho I used to be active. Oddly I still get new followers nearly every week even tho I think I've made only a half dozen posts or so all year.
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Here's a puzzle for the Google maps fans:-
Find Selwyn Avenue, it's in Minto NSW, Australia. (Note: Not in the USA)
A hint, it's one of the FOUR Longhurst Roads.
Feel free to cheat using Apple Maps in iOS 6.
Yesterday I just discovered that Milan in Italy is in flyover, and it looks great! It's actually a pretty small area, but it loads really fast because of that. On the other side, Los Angeles is such a huge area that it loads slower and has less detail.
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Originally Posted by jodyfanning
I just did a comparison during the weekend of Apple Maps on my iPad3 and Nokia Maps on my Lumia 800 (and N8) and I can say it is absolutely no competition.
Apple still has a way to go before it is a match. This has nothing to do with the accuracy of the maps, just the usefulness as a real car navigator.
The Nokia Maps actually provides real car navigation features such as speed, time/distance till destination, speed camera warnings, speed limit information, lane guidance, exit ramp numbers.
Also, while the Nokia Maps displayed side roads for context the iPad had just a single highway stretching ahead and just the one large info panel at the top. What a total waste of screen space.
About the only thing that was better was that the iPad screen updates are a bit smoother.
I also wish I could turn off the announcing of street names. iOS makes a total mess of Finnish street names when speaking English.
Hey Nokia maps fan dude, you can play my puzzle game too.
Find Selwyn Avenue, Minto, NSW Australia (not in the USA)
It's harder for you, at least the street exists in Google maps although it's misnamed.
Feel free to cheat using Apple maps in iOS 6
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Originally Posted by hill60
Here's a puzzle for the Google maps fans:-
Find Selwyn Avenue, it's in Minto NSW, Australia. (Note: Not in the USA)
A hint, it's one of the FOUR Longhurst Roads.
Feel free to cheat using Apple Maps in iOS 6.
It runs into Perisher at the V-intersection. And no I didn't use Apple maps.
Google Maps does have it mislabeled.
I love how Apple fanboys try hard to find zones where apple maps works and others don't, when it's actually very easy to find a zone that's best on google or nokia.
That place in Australia is almost completely empty AND the few homes there are just for display.
Anyway, I found the road, using streetview.
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=+Minto+,+australia&hl=fr&ll=-34.032413,150.855397&spn=0.003388,0.004812&sll=-33.882798,151.062803&sspn=0.432088,0.615921&t=h&hnear=Minto+Nouvelle-Galles+du+Sud,+Australie&z=18&layer=c&cbll=-34.032413,150.855397&panoid=ebJVKkzDZvh2p7Z5x5bNlA&cbp=12,219.01,,0,6.4
I won the puzzle. What do I win?
For every apple win, there's ten others google wins.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
It runs into Perisher at the V-intersection. And no I didn't use Apple maps.
Google Maps does have it mislabeled.
Apparently you didn't use Google maps either:-
You did say feel free to cheat.
I went to TomTom/TeleAtlas, found the street and copied coordinates, then pasted them into Google Maps. I've not checked to see how the other poster found it in Streetview. Anyway, that's proof enough for me that Apple Maps is more accurate than anything from Bing/Navteq/Google.
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Originally Posted by ClemyNX
That place in Australia is almost completely empty AND the few homes there are just for display.
I guess it depends on how up to date the images are:-
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Originally Posted by hill60
I guess it depends on how up to date the images are:-
Google's Streetview images for that area are labeled as 2011.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
You did say feel free to cheat.
I went to TomTom/TeleAtlas, found the street and copied coordinates, then pasted them into Google Maps. I've not checked to see how the other poster found it in Streetview. Anyway, that's proof enough for me that Apple Maps is more accurate than anything from Bing/Navteq/Google.
Nope, it proves that these other maps aren't as perfect as some would have us believe.
Apple should leave the traffic exactly how it is now. Google Maps traffic is meaningless since every single road constantly flashes red every three seconds.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
Google's Streetview images for that area are labeled as 2011.
They also seem to contain a mysterious space time discontinuum, if you follow the street view up Selwyn Avenue (or Longhurst Road as Google call it, not to be confused with Longhurst Road, Longhurst Road or the other Longhurst Road) then when you enter into Perisher, you are suddenly flung onto Eagleview Road...
...cue the twilight zone music.
This little area is way more entertaining than some park in Manhattan or Brooklyn or wherever it was that was in that Google iLost Ad.
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Originally Posted by hill60
Nope, it proves that these other maps aren't as perfect as some would have us believe.
Sure no map is perfect, no one actually said that.
I just want better support for non-american cities. Apple, Google, everyone concentrate their efforts on the US, which is normal, but other countries represent a lot of their sales.
This doesn't apply just to maps, but to Siri too, like for searching a movie playing nearby.
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Originally Posted by ClemyNX
Sure no map is perfect, no one actually said that.
I just want better support for non-american cities. Apple, Google, everyone concentrate their efforts on the US, which is normal, but other countries represent a lot of their sales.
This doesn't apply just to maps, but to Siri too, like for searching a movie playing nearby.
Hey mate, Australia isn't in America.
Apple also didn't release an "iLost" Ad
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Originally Posted by hill60
Hey mate, Australia isn't in America.
Apple also didn't release an "iLost" Ad
I'm not aware of Motorola Mobility posting anything other than to their own Google+ page. Did you see an ad placed by Moto somewhere else? Perhaps they did make it into an ad somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Gatorguy
I'm not aware of Motorola Mobility posting anything other than to their own Google+ page. Did you see an ad placed by Moto somewhere else? Perhaps they did make it into an ad somewhere.
Hey what does #iLost mean?
It looks like some sort of Twitter thing?
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Originally Posted by hill60
Hey what does #iLost mean?
It looks like some sort of Twitter thing?
Sounds like some twitter folk made it a hashtag, or at least I think that's what they call it. I seldom bother with Twitter anymore tho I used to be active. Oddly I still get new followers nearly every week even tho I think I've made only a half dozen posts or so all year.
Originally Posted by hill60
A hint, it's one of the FOUR Longhurst Roads.
"Okay, so where are you?"
"I'm at the corner of Longhurst and… Longhurst. Jerry, I think I'm at the nexus of the universe!"
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Originally Posted by Squuiid
Hoover Dam is still screwed in Satellite view. Scalextric FTW!
Same for me - but you have to ask yourself, "who cares?" I know the bridge doesn't flow down into the valley and I don't need to see it perfectly.