Maps on mavericks blank

The correct Region is selected not just the Preferred Language in System Preferences > Language & Region ?

Same problem here on an 17-inch, Mid 2009 MBP on 10.9.1 (13B42): maps loads, but no matter what I do, I get nothing to display other than the grid.

I did the upgrade at the same time, to a newer 2011 MBP, and the maps display.

What's disconcerting is, this problem is just random enough that it hasn't been addressed, though I did submit an official bug report.

User applebit924, in another thread, noted that the file ~/Library/Cache/MapTiles/MapTiles.sqlitedb seemed to be at the core of the issue. On my system, a 17-inch Mid-2010 MBP running 10.9.1, deleting the directory ~/Library/Cache/MapTiles (with Maps not running) forced it to regenerate the data when launched, and resolved the issue for me without requiring a reboot. Your mileage may vary.

@Steeljack,

Thanks for the reply. I deleted the above-mentioned file, ensuring that Maps was not running (via a ps) and restarted, but everything was the same.

For what it's worth, it works when I run it as root, and while I have tried dtrussing the output, I haven't found the difference between why root works and my user doesn't, but my guess is either a permissions issue or some file(s) that I haven't accounted for yet.

I expect to have to debug this kind of mess on Lunix, but really, on OSX?

Solution:

goto terminal.app

killall Dock

This should fix the problem without having to restart.

Go to

~/Library/Containers/

and delete "com.apple.Maps"

@el_mancebo,

Thanks for the response, but no dice, even after rm -rf'ing ...

I have a brand new 27" iMAC. I have all the Language/Region settings correct but it still comes up blank. If I go to full screen viewing, it works fine, but is rather slow on the huge screen. If I go back out of full screen, everything then looks great for about 2 seconds... then it goes blank again.

any one still has the same problem

try that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzCRun9dZ60&feature=youtu.be

I was able to get Maps back after I rebuilt my MacBook Pro's disk directory and cleared it's caches.

Detailed instructions are shown in this article:

http://www.cultofmac.com/267818/slow-mac-tune-up-macrx/

After the rebuild in 'Safe Boot' and then restarting normally, Maps automagically began to work !!

HTH

This problem had been plaguing me for months, and none of the suggestions I tried online helped. I finally tried looking in the console, and found lots of lines like this:

9/3/14 10:58:57.512 xpcd[206]: com.apple.geod[733]: registration request failed: (0x11, 0x0) Could not obtain real path to the container root (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.geod/Data): The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory

9/3/14 10:58:57.703 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.geod[733]) Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction: 4

9/3/14 10:58:57.703 com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.geod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I tried rm -r ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.geod and then re-launched Maps, and much to my delight, I was finally seeing actual maps!

The console showed my map tiles being recreated, and fixing permissions on the com.apple.Maps container (which directory I had earlier tried deleting, based on other online suggestions):

9/3/14 11:03:34.284 com.apple.geod[800]: /SourceCache/GeoServices/GeoServices-702.15.12/GEOTileDBWriter.mm:203 recreating tile database because manifest URL changed

9/3/14 11:03:34.284 com.apple.geod[800]: /SourceCache/GeoServices/GeoServices-702.15.12/GEOTileDBWriter.mm:406 Recreating tile database

9/3/14 11:03:50.311 xpcd[206]: restored permissions (100600 -> 100700) on /Users/jim/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/Container.plist

It seems that removing both of those got rid of whatever corruption had been causing this long-standing problem. I hope this might help someone else.