New Maps App on iOS 6 - poor resolution?

Hi All

Battery life is down too between 6 AM and 10.45 today 80% of the battery power depleated with only one call newish 6 months 4s iphone so keep a check on that just been round and about in Birmingham UKit's next to useless.

Jon

Hi,

My 3GS has seen normal power consumption, but my iPad 3 has been pretty hungry (Not that I agree with its baqttery life being that great prior to iOS6) but you could check here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4310494?start=75&tstart=0

Oh, and the new maps are *****!

Hi to all,

same in Germany. Execpt some major cities poor resolution, unbelievable bad colors etc. Once again they throwing software on the market in status that should called "Beta". Better do some nightshifts in Cubertino than in the apple store's selling Iphone 5.....

That's actually really good quality compare to the results I'm getting. I seem to live in the middle of a large green blob. There is not a single distinguishable feature there. I can make out a river or canal in your map 🙂

I've been having a look around the images in London and they are really impressive. I can see where Apple want to go with maps. However, it's just not ready yet. I do wonder if we would've seen this release had Steve Jobs still be around at Apple. I have a feeling he would've looked at this and realised that they were attempting to release an incomplete product.

Same in Germany. Very poor resolution e.g. in Dortmund, a >500k city! The city names appear far to late (you have to zoom in nearly to maximum to make them appear), also no StreetView. Fly-over is nice, but it's just a "nice-to-have", there is no real use of it (and it's no available to most of the cities).

I really ike iOS 6 - but Maps is a big step backwards. And Google Maps had been a real killer app with the introduction of iPhone back in 2007. GIVE US BACK GOOGLE MAPS, please! 😮

I miss Google Maps. I want my bus routing function back.

I want my street view back.

I have the same issue with my cycle meter app. The mapped routes were awesome and now they are terrible looking. I also have a golf GPS app which is around £10 per annum for the basic version ( or £75pa for the pro option ). One of the courses I regularly play is now covered with a thick blanket of cloud. Totally useless. Apple needs to get their act together.

I downloaded the update last night because I seen the iphone5 advert and thought the maps looked amazing with great detail. I'm regretting this now.

It's terrible how apple used the new maps as part of its marketing for the new iPhone and they don't flipping work.

the new maps is discraceful.. black and white, low res images. to top it off my town is totally obscured by a cloud.. total joke..

I agree wholeheartedly with the comments. The Apple maps app is so poor compared with Google maps. No street view. Poor low resolution satellite images that in some areas are just a blur looking through clouds. Compared with Google maps this app is rubbish.

If you guys think it's bad in the UK, go take a look at some towns in Ireland...

wow ...i got my new ios6 passbook to hold my boarding pass ooooooo ; right!! now all i need is to get to the airport .....maps to the rescue!

(just in case:that's sarcasm apple ... because i have my doubts that anyone who releases such a substandard 'upgrade' without realising how poor it is can realise when sarcasm is being used)

oh well looks like apple could be another company who takes their customer's loyalty and market share for granted .like Nokia did.

I know Americans are not very good in geography but can anyone explain why some areas of Warsaw, Poland (yeah, it's Europe) are in Chinese? We use latin alphabet 🙂

There's a free app available in the App Store called iFindView. It's Google maps, and a better version on the one that was present in IOS5.