On Oct 13, 2012, at 12:13 PM, John Robinson wrote: > To follow up on the MapGate I found this article just written, seems to > verify what I feel. When you are a big target many bullets come your way, > normally undeserved. This is a huge company and some folks will not be happy > unless they can throw some dirt. Remember the guff Apple caught by naming > the iPad the iPad? Where is it now, don't hear a word but the pundits had to > have their 15 seconds of glory. Believe me, even through the maps are > considered good they will get much better.
I think the performance of Apple maps depends a lot on where you are looking. I've had no problems near Louisville, but I don’t rely on it as much around here. North of Milwaukee and in the upper peninsula of Michigan, I found Apple's maps to be often unreliable and often just plain wrong. In Green Bay, Apple's program took us far out of our way because it apparently doesn't know about a bridge over the Fox River. I wrote before about how the road leading to my parent's house is missing and the lake by which the house sits is misnamed. In fact the nearby main highway outside Marquette, Michigan is misnamed and shown as only two lanes even though it has been four lanes since at least 1960. It still has the Marquette County airport west of Marquette, even though it was moved to south of the city more than a decade ago. I've no doubt they'll get this fixed because it's been a big embarrassment to the company, and they've plenty of money to throw at the problem. As for now, I’m relying on GPS Drive and Waze because I've had no similar problems with them on the iPhone. I found Waze particularly useful for avoiding the worst parts of the parking lots Chicagoans euphemistically call freeways.
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