Q: Apple maps very disappointing

Standard works, Satellite works, Hybrid doesn't work, it shows no street lines, just the satellite view with some street names, depending zoom. Anyone else have this issue?

Reboot, force reboot etc. hasn't fixed it.

"phillipfromest lansing - my problem is an "old" Nokia Hands Free car kit. Works perfectly with every other Bluetooth enabled phone I have (including a brand new Blackberry and brand new HTC) but since upgrading from iOS 4 won't display network, battery or call info from the iPhone."

Sorry to hear it.

hmm, all you gotta do is look through the forums to see ios6 issues

There may be ios6 issues -- but I haven't encountered anything serious. There were ios5 issues and ios4 issues too.

But, those are likely more easily fixed technical glitches and bugs as opposed to a serious functionality problem.

Maps is the BIG issue with iOS 6 that cannot easily be solved with a update patch.

Rive0108 where did you read that Google have no intention of creating Google Maps for iOS? The only statement I’ve read from Google is that they haven’t done anything yet. Who knows what we might see in a few months, unless you’ve seen another statement from Google stating that they have abandoned  iOS?

philipfromeast lansing wrote:

 

Plus, third party apps will give you that feature. And, they'll eventually Apple will acheive parity with Google. They have enormous resources. In the meantime, we have to make do with what we have and make it better.

 

Third part apps are not integrated like the Apple Map app is or Google Maps was.

I agree with you to a degree but I personally don't have enormous resources (like Apple) nor the free time to volunteer to help udate Apple Maps. They are not running a charity instead they make huge profits.  They can't just pawn off this work on the customers.

In the mean time the right thing for me to do was rollback to IOS5 and skip the Iphone 5 and IOS 6 for a while.

Do note that Google Maps was pretty horrible in many ways for the first few years as well, so though it hurts, it will get better.

In the mean time, most of the functionality can be regained by using maps.google.com through Safari.

@apple_tox

1.apple refuses to relicense google maps

2. ios6 users not having google maps is good for google's core business considering the traffic it drives to the browser based maps

3. google and apple are not on friendly terms at the moment

4. google is enjoying the apple ilost maps fallout

thats why you wont see a google maps app anytime soon in itunes. perhaps maybe you will see it again in ios7 (assuming apple su*ks it up and relicenses it for ios)

google doesnt care about the lost revenue from ios users, and currently they reign supreme with android as far as mobile marketshares go. In the recent confirmation by google, Schmidt actually chuckled when asked about the itunes rumor regarding google maps in ios6

Over half of Google's Mobile Map traffic came from iOS. I bet they don't care =)

@jonfromdaleville

they dont. and right now with google and apple at each others throat, they would be more than willing to lose whatever revenue they had from ios users just to see apple lose customers to android

all traffic from ios users is now for the most part being driven in droves to the google maps website (just like windows/mac desktop users)

your kidding yourself if you think ios users mean anything to google. all they care about is the licensing fee they get per ios user from apple for google maps. without apple relicensing the maps, google doesnt get anything

These two paragraphs from an article at Wired.com sums it up well -

"

Moving to its own mapping platform makes business sense for Apple in the long run, especially considering previous versions of iOS used the maps of its chief rival. But most smartphone buyers don’t care about any company’s strategic goals. They just want to know how to find the Washington Monument.

For those folks, Apple’s doublespeak on the maps debacle doesn’t cut it. “We launched this new map service knowing that it is a major initiative and we are just getting started with it,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told AllThingsD. But why should loyal Apple customers be patient when the last version of maps on the iPhone just worked? We don’t care about initiatives. We care about maps that get us where we’re going. And if we care enough, we might just switch over to the company whose better maps the iPhone used to carry."

I concur. It is not our cross to carry and it is not our job to help Apple with map data. It is Apple's job to license google maps at whatever terms they refused (I suspect it was not about the money at all) - so that we can be saved from this ridiculous downgrade from Google Maps to Apple Maps.

The next few months and maybe a couple of years, Apple is going to be the butt of jokes across the Internet. "it just works" - how funny! It doesn't - not with Apple - it just works with Google right now.

slogan should be "It just doesnt work..anymore"

Thanks a lot for the tip on Maps+ - it works on IOS6 and uses Google Maps data to provide directions. At last, I seem to have a Maps app on IOS6 that knows somthing!

It seems to recognise places and also routes very well in India. It lacks the public transport service of the Google Maps though.

Does anyone know how to drop a point on IOS6 maps?  I use to go onto the maps app on IOS5, and put a thumbtack on a place and then use it make directions,  I can't figure out how to do this on maps on my iphone 5.  In fact, when I was driving around today in Doha Qatar, I tried to find a well known location using search on maps, and it wouldn't find it.  So instead I tried to find it on the map itself and then put a tac down on the point to then use maps for directions from my current location to the dropped pin.  Yet I can't figure out how to put a dropped pin down on this thing...

any ideas?

Don't bother dropping a Pin and asking Apple maps to route. It does not work on Apple maps. It works on Google Maps.

Here is the problem you will face -

1. You will search for a place and Apple Maps won't know where it is and will fail

2. You will then look at the Map and drop a pin at approximately the right place because you know it, although Apple Maps doesn't

3. You will then tell maps to give you the route to that place (drive path)

4. Apple maps will fail again and tell you that it could not route

I used to do this several times a day with Google Maps - only step 1 and 3, as that was enough to route. Now, I have this Apple Maps - which can't do it even with some spoon feeding.

Try Maps+ - just installed it a couple of hours back. It uses Google Maps data and seems to do the search and routing pretty well.