The biggest thing wrong with it is the tech press won't shut the fuck up about it. Does it have issues, yes. So does Google Maps, but we don't get 12 articles every 60 seconds about it. Good god, there are other options on the phone right now if you seriously can't get to your local coffee shot without it. I've had it since the since the beta and never had an issue. Should we write a story about that?

I gave this same comment in another article on iOS 6 maps. For me, using them 3 days, I've had no errors. They don't have the detail as the Google Maps but man are they fast. Here's my comment.


I've been using iOS 6 maps for 3 days now and have had no problems. Everything has worked great and they are extremely fast. The detail isn%u2019t what Google Maps were but everything where I live is located where it should be.

I did have an occasion or two using Google Maps and they ended up taking me to incorrect places. Same with my Garmin. It took me to a remote mountain location once and I was lost for an hour.

Three days isn%u2019t much time using the maps but so far they%u2019ve been perfect for me. Again they are super fast and I%u2019m impressed with the speed in which they find things. The turn-by-turn works great. I%u2019m please with them and they will only get better during the next few months.

I'll tell you what's wrong with it in one sentence. I don't need a 5-page article that should be a paragraph in length.

Google Maps app is iOS 5 was better.

The bigger issue here is that all other iPhones besides the 5 that updated to iOs 6 were stripped of decent Google Maps from our iPhones and replaced with crapware without even a warning.

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Originally Posted by Daniel Eran Dilger 

Because Google's web Street View is implemented via Adobe Flash, there isn't currently any way to access it from iOS 6.

Oh really?

Come on, do your research better.

The map cannot find my apartment. My address, in my address is 1845 1/8. When I delete the apartment number, it works. Does anyone else have this problem? I tried reporting to apple but have not heard back from them.

There's one additional feature missing from Apple's maps that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere which I used to us a lot with Google Maps on my iPhone. Traffic data does not draw a distinction in direction. In the old Google Maps, you could see a green line showing clear traffic Northbound and a red line showing a traffic jam Southbound. In the new Apple Maps, you just see a red line on the street making it impossible to know which direction has bad traffic.

Regarding the Statue of Liberty and Hoover Dam. Both of those are not really 'mistakes' but 'incompletes' The model just hasn't been built yet. For the status of liberty that will be a complex model as the shape is complex and well know (unlike trees which look like ice cream cones because of the complexity but, in the case of trees, no motivation to get them all right). For Hoover Dam that is just following the underlying Geo contour data with its inherent flaws. They didn't make the model wrong they just haven't done it yet.

As was stated the foundation here looks to be much better but we have a bit of a bumpy ride at the start. You really can't get this massive an effort complete out of the gates as Apple, like Google before them, is depending on the massive user input to get things better.

I think the biggest source of grievance is because this is Apple and we expect better. Google are happy to throw garbage out the door before it's ready but we expect near perfection from Apple. Apple have been working on this for some time now and aren't short of money to throw at a problem so it should have been better than it is.

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Originally Posted by Ireland 

I'll tell you what's wrong with it in one sentence. I don't need a 5-page article that should be a paragraph in length.
Google Maps app is iOS 5 was better.

Hey Ireland, why don't you put your opinion on the web and see if anyone comes to read it.