Apple Maps dropped pins vanishing
Hi
I have an extremely irritating problem, or just stupid behavior, in Maps, let me explain.
Let’s say I want to mark a few places around a lake that I want to remember and find again. As an example I can use this lake in Sweden (60,44571° N, 16,45805° E).
Let’s say I drop a pin at the NW side of the lake, and add to my favorites. Fine, the red dot shows there.
But now I drop a pin at the other end of the lake because there is a place I want to remember and get back to later. And add it to my favorites. Yes! The red dot shows there. But now the first red dot have disappeared, gone, vanished…. Hmmmm…. strange, so I try to drop it again, we’ll then it shows but the second pin disappears…. Crazy…
I’ve probably find the problem. The pins are both in an area with the same address, and it seems that just one pin at the same address is allowed in Maps…? I’ll guess this is the problem because in a city there’s no such problems with pins/favorites close to each others. But there’s also differences in addresses with very narrow borders, like in an apartment building with several entrances in the same building but for example different numbers even if the street is the same.
If I’m right in my guess this is really stupid behavior in Maps, because why not have the geographic coordinates as the reference….? My dropped pins around the lake is some hundred meters from each other, but that seems to be a conflict in Maps which delete my previous dropped pin if the next one is to close and in the same address, even if it’s hundreds of meters between them. Just utterly stupid…
An other strange behavior that is in some way is connected with the above problem, is that many of my earlier pins, added to my favorites, not shows on the map, no red dot to be seen. Strange… but if I drop a new pin at he same spot it will say in the menu “Remove from favorites” just like it already is a pin ther added as a favorite but not to be seen on the map.
I’ll think these strange things occur both in Maps on Mac and on iOS/iPadOS and on all my devices running latest versions
I’ve reported this strange behavior in the Feedback app, a few times, but nothing happens and no response.
So does anyone here have a clue about this? I’ll just think it’s really stupid having that limitation 2022 in a map app. And also I would like to be able to select different colors to my dropped pins/favorites. And also be able to select having my favorites in alphabetic order or latest first or such. Because now it feels quit difficult to find the right favorites you looking for.
Cheers
Dr T
iPad Pro 10.5-inch, Wi-Fi, Cellular