Q: Apple maps very disappointing

I'm a little suprised people are making such a big deal about this. Before iOS 6, we had no integrated turn by turn maps and google maps wasnt exaclty accurate. I often HAD to use street view just to verify a location. Google maps was pretty good at finding buisnesses, but was often wrong when linking off an address in my Contacts.

I use the App Around Me to find buisnesses... so a lack of good buisness integration is something I will likeley never notice.

That, and the Apple Maps app is very data efficient.. and a lot faster as a result. The way the Google Maps was designed for the iphone, every "layer" in the map was a separate image.. so zooming in often resulted in "image not available".. forcing me to zoom out or in further just to get a full image without missing tiles.

Apple entered the ridicule:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/22/mapsception/

using Google Maps via Safari is not the same as the app....Apple needs to release a Google Maps app...pronto!

stevecloud75 wrote:

 

Apple needs to release a Google Maps app...pronto!

Apple can't release Google Maps. Only Google can do that.

Shilts9 wrote:

 

I completely agre with you. I have been an apple convert for years with various macs, iPhones and iPads along the way. I stick with apple because user experience was one of their key values and therefore I could always trust that on the whole the experience always improved along the way. Apple maps seems a significant step back in this regard, I cannot help but think that the apple of a few years ago would never have allowed an inferior version to replace an previous superior one. I too, for the first time ever, am thinking android is becoming a more viable option.

 

I noticed that near me Leamington Spa is now 'Royal Spa' and Stratford upon Avon has been completely renamed 'Shotterly', who new? I just worry about all the tourists who are now definitely going to end up wandering around the Olympic park in the other Stratford looking for Shakespeare's birth place.

I agree~I have also used Apple products for years and have not been disappointed~until now!! I hope Apple will fix this SOON!!!!

Sandman,

I'm surprised you're surprised.

Everything isn't about your experience.   Clearly, the volume of complaints that has produced an unprecedented apology from Apple -- encouraging it to use a competitor's work -- suggests that your needs, judgment, and experience don't determine the needs, judgment, and experiences of the rest of the world.

It's great that the new app works better for you.  That will likely not change with new versions of the app from Apple.

But for many of us around the world using it, it's inferior.  The new App for Swedish addresses, for example, only finds streets in many parts of Sweden for many searches.  The default is Stockholm though I'm far from Stockholm.  Searching for a very specific address in many cases confuses the search feature and stops the search or leaves it hanging.  And the directions are driving, not walking (for which cycling is appropriate, again more common in Europe than America).

Are you less surprised now that the way it works for you it might not work for the rest of us?

Apple wasn't ready for this launch.  That's why we want the older but more advanced product for many features.

I don't know what all the complaints are a bout I have been using the maps on iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S since it came out I truly love this program and I have used a lot of GPS systems and read a lot of maps And I probably do more traveling than anybody in this lobby complain about the maps Maybe some people just need To learn

How to read a map It has never Steer me wrong and it has been accurate every time By the way I'm a truck driver I'm telling you this mapping system is by far superior of Google or any other GPS system out there Thank you Apple.

JBS6267 wrote:

 

Clearly, the volume of complaints that has produced an unprecedented apology from Apple -- encouraging it to use a competitor's work -- suggests that your needs, judgment, and experience don't determine the needs, judgment, and experiences of the rest of the world.

I suspect the reason for the unprecedented apology has less to do with the volume of complaints and more to do with the difference in style between Jobs and Cook.

Don't be so pathetic and try not to quote out of context.

My comment was in the context that IF the maps are SO mission critical to your life, your business, your... whatever.. then to upgrade on the day of release without waiting to check all was OK, and without a roll back solution is at best rash, at worse, frankly, stupid.

I said nobody forced anyone to upgrade. They didn't. It may well have address stability issues. But were you really having such issues that your phone was SO unusable that you couldn't wait 24 hours? I doubt it.

Yes the complaints are legitimate. It is a mess, but it is NOT the life and death crisis that some people are trying to make out. But this is NOT a complaints forum, it is a SUPPORT forum, and I posted a suggested solution.

And, BTW, the Apple Fanboys name calling really doesn't help anyone. Many "Apple Fanboys" on here provide positive help to users when they have genuine issues.

The post I was responding was a whinge fest that advanced nothing.

By the way, this morning I posted a link to a page that suggested a solution.

Someone asked if I had tried it. I have not. However, I did try this which is on the same page.

"What I did was get google.co.uk up in safari then tap maps.A drop down box appears and askks you to tap the box with arrow.when you do this,a further drop down box appears and several choices are given,Select install app on Home screen.Done"

This solution works just fine. Job done.

Looks like I won't be falling the canal now while looking for Starbucks.

And Stratford-upon-Avon appears to be in the correct place...

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Dont waste your time here. This thread has outlived its purpose - the solution has been asked for enough.

There are hundreds of articles about this all over the web - everyday - today included.

To ensure a solution (revert to integrated working Maps app - IOS 5 Maps) , the noise must be out there.

I have just posted the following at Forbes, Fortune, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, - just ask for the solution at every public forum. Everybody who needs it. That way, we may get somewhere-

Of the 100 million people who upgraded from IOS5 to IOS6, between 10 and 40 million people are challenged - with advanced age, declining or low cognition, technology illiteracy....

Most of these people do not know anything about the dysfunctional IOS6 Maps and have not heard of Tim Cooks Apology. They are unlikely to read or understand the alternative solutions suggested by Tim Cook. They do not know that the data is mostly wrong for locations outside the USA.

They will do what they have done before, use an easy to use, very well designed Map application (this is true for both IOS5 Maps and IOS6 Maps). They do not know that unlike earlier, the new Maps may point them to the wrong place or in the wrong direction.

They risk injury and death.

Apple IOS6 Maps must - on every screen or through repeated notifications, warn of the problem. Not doing so would be irresponsible.

They must also provide a simple way for people to downgrade or revert to IOS5 Maps or IOS5 - both of which have been blocked by Apple.

Careful Zeddecus. The haters here will jump all over you. It's ok for them to rant but when actual people who think the app is better then the old one say so they jump on you.

Actually, I will be switching off the mail feed from this thread now. This thread has no further purpose for me - and I think you too. It will just waste your time - let others spend time here now.

Have you actually tried any other option? Sounds like you just want one solution and won't listen to anyone that gives you other options.

To both Adam Getliff and KC7GNM:

First of all, yes, I have tried the above solutions.  It does not work.   No offer to install the app on our home screen. Period.  Whatever is happening on google maps in some areas is not happening everywhere.   The only solution offered takes me back to what we have been given - no walking directions, limited search functions not working in Europe, etc.   

Second, you are correct, Adam, that this is a support forum, and there are the new support points being raised.  Your solutions have not worked.   So people who have paid for the phone can make these comments in the hope that Apple will respond, or someone with more helpful solutions.    Just because you are taking this emotionally and reading it as a complaint, does not mean everyone has to frame a question as a request for support so that you like it.

Finally, again calling people pathetic is the tone we are talking about -- in context.   You're causing more drama than helping.   So just stop, please, with the anger.