Dear Apple,
I am so very dissapointed with the new Apple Maps app. It is almost impossible to discern the streets from the beige background of neighborhoods. It renders really slowly, and jumps around like it's being shocked. I am a huge Apple fanboy, but this is a complete disaster. I told my wife not to upgrade to iOS 6 just because of the Maps. When she and the kids looked at what it was doing, no one wants to upgrade. Incredibly sad, because everything else you have done is genius! I do appreciate the turn-by-turn navigation and recalculation of routes, but if you can't read the Maps app graphics - it's all for nothing. Your satellite view just doesn't seem to cut it either, I'm afraid.
I tried my updated Geocaching app, and it was just horrid. I had no idea where I should be driving. If you zoom in enough to see the roads, then you lose perspective of the area. If you zoom out just a few blocks to see your relationship to the world, the streets fade into the background. There is just not enough contrast. Google resolved this by making their streets slightly exagerated in width, and used wider black lines on the edges of the streets. You would do well by following that example.
Please fix this soon. You have emasculated a once awesome, and essential app.
73 de af6pu Jim
