Google Maps

Are you daft? Boycotting a mapping service? Apple makes HUGE profit margins from people buying their products to the point where they don't need ads in their services. Do me a favor and try using Google Maps 1.0

From Safari on your iPhone go to map.google.com and choose to save Google Maps to your screen.

"it just works" doesnt work anymore.

apple wants you to be their gunea pig, and say 5 years from now hopefully apple ilost maps will no longer get you lost!

ps- just read from the confirmation of eric schmidt regarding they have no plans to create a google maps for ios6, that they just added a new feature to maps- you can look around in the maps by simply turning your device in your hands as though you were actually standing there

Try 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.

It is an app, so not as clumsy to use as Google Maps on Safari.

That is what you get for running out and buying the latest 'flashy" product from Apple (or anyone) w/o waiting to see what the bugs were. Sure I love Apple products, but I NEVER buy anything just because it's trendy. I went out today and bought an inexpensive PC based tablet because I needed Google maps for emergency responses.

Just a word to the wise.

Forget your "accurate" mapping, it's gone and using the Internet Google maps is a poor option as it will not interface with your GPS location, etc.

No offense, but too many people just buy things w/o thinking first.

W.

Perhaps if you were more accurate in your description of what you're suggesting it would help. The browser-based mapping sites you list are not true "alternatives" for the embedded maps app which the OS directs you to when you click on an address hyperlink in other apps. Like it or not, an iOS 6 user is stuck using the Apple maps app quite often because the OS sends him or her there. It's certainly possible to select an address in an email or contact, copy it, pull up one of the bookmarked map sites in Safari, paste the link and find the address. Just not comparable to being taken there directly by the OS into a competent mapping app.

Louis XIV wrote:

That is what you get for running out and buying the latest 'flashy" product from Apple (or anyone) w/o waiting to see what the bugs were. Sure I love Apple products, but I NEVER buy anything just because it's trendy. I went out today and bought an inexpensive PC based tablet because I needed Google maps for emergency responses.

All due respect, Louis, but I didn't buy anything. I simply updated the software on my iPhone 4 which I've had since they became available to Verison subscribers. Usually I read about the update before I do this and I watch "Tech News Today," with Tom Merrit on Twit TV to find out about the bugs. Sadly, I did it without thinking this time and my Google Maps is gone forever. If I had known, I would not have updated. The big issue for me is that the Apple Mapping system is default for all the other Apps. Good-bye MapMyWalk.

I survived before I had this abiblity on my phone. I'll just go back to getting the information before I leave the house and using Google Maps through Safari for the unexpected. This makes me re-think purchasing another iPhone. I may go back to a regular phone, which gets better reception, and an iPod.

Cynthia

HuskieN wrote:

Are you daft? Boycotting a mapping service? Apple makes HUGE profit margins from people buying their products to the point where they don't need ads in their services. Do me a favor and try using Google Maps 1.0

Did I call you names? I've used Google Maps 1.0 and no it wasn't very good. At least in Google's case they asked me if I'd help. They didn't take away something I depended on and say, "Your helping us develop this." I put in my time, I don't wish to go backward. I will not give Apple the information they are looking for.

I know that there are people who can't avoid using it because other Apps defalt to it. I can avoid using it because it's not that difficult, for me, to use my laptop for directions. It will be inconvenient at times, but this is the last straw from me.

I've put up with a lot over the years (Since 1984) and stuck by Apple, teasing by friends because my computer was a "toy." Having to buy a new computer because, "Oh, we don't support that anymore. Too bad, so sad." And "Oh, darn, yeah, you have to buy an upgrade for that work in Lion."

I'll never buy another type of computer and I'll never be without an iPod, but I don't have an iPhone or iPad. I believe as I've read in many blogs and seen on Tech News Today that Apple will have to go back to Google Maps. The prediction is 24 months. I can live without buying a new iPhone until then.

Cynthia

These guys are proving to be worse than Microsoft, when it was at its worst... A condescending statement from the company on this issue and nothing else - no apology, no solution, no nothing...

Actually, this incident has caused me to break my 5-year moratorium on using Microsoft products. I'm a writer and I had it with Microsoft "improving" Word to the point I had to re-learn a software I'd been using since version 2.0! And it was not better. Word was perfect at version 5.X

So for the first time in 5 years I will be using the money I'd have used to upgrade to the new iPhone to purchase Microsoft Word. Not that it will hurt or has hurt either company, but it makes me feel better. Actions speak louder then words.

Cynthia

Apple, PLEASE BRING BACK GOOGLE MAPS!!!!

I think IOS users who are stuck with an iPhone or iPad, have no choice but to use Map Apps that will work (recognise places and give simple directions) in their country. For example, in the USA, it could be Waze or MapsQuest etc. In India, Maps+ seems to do the job, I believe there is another beautiful local product available for Japan.

People who were looking for an upgrade to IPhone5 or a new iPad have more choice. They can switch to the Android ecosystem - maybe a Samsung S3 with a Samsung Tab. Don't believe the fanboys here who say Android *****. While I use mac-iPad-iPhone, I have many friends, power users at that, who have high end Android phones and tabs, they are happy and those products are quite good and keep improving. And of course, they have working Maps. So, bottom line, Android Works. IOS doesn't - not anymore.

As for IOS users using Apple Maps and helping to improve data on them, why would we do that? Let's leave that to people who have time to waste and nothing much else to do. When better map alternatives exist, why on earth would I spend time opening an App that will not help me, just to give it data? I have been idiotic enough to download IOS6, which does not work. Compounding idiocy by wasting time feeding data to the Apple Maps app does not seem to make sense... :-)

after ios6 update, first time in my iLife, i regret to have apple product ... 😠

Google is working furiously on a replacement I am sure.

As a recent article had stated that almost half of all adware

generated revenue generated by their Maps apps was from

iPhones. So, expect a Google Maps app in the near

future.

As far as Apple Maps, improvement will come with feedback

on errors found in databases, which is the vast majority of

issues. This is how all map/nav apps are improved. The

creators will not know if there are errors if they are not

made aware of them.

For iPhones, here is what you do:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2010577/how-to-report-problems-in-ios-6s-maps.ht ml

For those who refuse to do this to make things better,

then good day and have a good life.

It is silly to waste time giving map data to a shoddy and poor product (Apple Maps), so that it becomes a little better.

It makes far more sense to give missing map data to make a good product (Google Maps), even better for everybody.

Why throw good money after bad?

I've started to use MapQuest, its about a close as you can get to Google Maps for the moment. Microsoft....er, I mean Apple....your map app *****. Get over yourself and work on getting Google Maps back for iOS 6.