Apple maps app ....

[Donny Dave]

Looks like TfL have got a sense of humour at least!

 

[deltic1989]

That's why I go Android.

 

[wintonian]

That's why I go Android.

With an app that uses Open Street Map data, so you can download the whole of the UK and not need a signal.

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[Bungle73]

That's why I go Android.

Because of one app that has a few teething troubles when it's first been released?

With an app that uses Open Street Map data, so you can download the whole of the UK and not need a signal.

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What does what map data is used have to do with whether you can download all the maps at once or not?

 

[wintonian]

Well with Google maps you can only pre cache 5x 10mile x 10mile sections, but with an OSM app you can download whole countries before you go out.

 

[SS4]

Apple must have spent all the money for maps on lawyers to troll the US patent system in order to give its increasingly weak (compared to equivalent high-end Android) phones an artificial advantage by banning all its competitors.

edit: added "" to make it clear this was a joke

 

[Bungle73]

Well with Google maps you can only pre cache 5x 10mile x 10mile sections, but with an OSM app you can download whole countries before you go out.

But has nothing to do with the data used, it's just a feature of a particular app. I'm sure you could find an iOS map app that does the same if you look hard enough.

 

[transmanche]

Well with Google maps you can only pre cache 5x 10mile x 10mile sections, but with an OSM app you can download whole countries before you go out.

As you can with Nokia Maps (along with turn-by-turn directions and traffic disruption updates).

 

[Bungle73]

(along with turn-by-turn directions and traffic disruption updates).

The Apple maps app has those (on later phones).

 

[transmanche]

The Apple maps app has those (on later phones).

Obviously it needs a network connection for the traffic updates, but can it do turn-by-tuen directions when offline? (That was the distinction between Nokia Maps and Google maps when I bought my last phone.)

 

[Tomonthetrain]

It seems to think i am in Dudley when i am in Stourbridge

 

[Lampshade]

It seems to think i am in Dudley when i am in Stourbridge

Same thing, it's all Birmingham...







...hides.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

I haven't upgraded my iPhone from iOS 5 because of all the complaints about Maps, but I did upgrade my iPad. I noticed that the traffic info on the iPad today was actually better, showing roads closed due to flooding which Google maps on the iPhone didn't.

 

[Tomonthetrain]

Same thing, it's all Birmingham...



...hides.

OI!!! I am really offended! I ain't a Birmingham lad i am a Black Country lad. 2 separate places!! Just like although Stourbridge is in the Dudley Borough, it ain't Dudley its Stourbridge.

 

[GB]

Updated my iPad to ios6 last night, checked out the maps and can't believe how poor they are. Poor quality, much of my town in black and white and lots of areas just covered in cloud.

 

[Ivo]

Thank you for giving me a good laugh David

 

[SS4]

OI!!! I am really offended! I ain't a Birmingham lad i am a Black Country lad. 2 separate places!! Just like although Stourbridge is in the Dudley Borough, it ain't Dudley its Stourbridge.

As a Birmingham lad the feeling's mutual

 

[Crossover]

Thanks David - I have been showing the image to a few people (mostly those who have iPhones )

Seems like in the meantime, Apple have advised customers to use rival map programs, such as Google Maps.....:roll:

 

[Geezertronic]

Considering it is a free tool that comes as part of the phone IOS, I don't see why there is a big fuss to be honest. If people had paid for it as a downloadable app and was having issues with it then I could understand...

I am sure they will sort it out given time, maybe they were on a hiding to nothing given the apparent success of Google Maps on IOS 5.x and below

 

[GB]

If they were going to ditch google in an attempt to force or persuade people to use Apple Maps then it should have been released to some kind of standard. All to often companies release software to quickly and hope to patch it at a later date.

That fact that it is free has little or no relevance. If the RAC or AA were handing out free road maps at the local supermarket I am sure people would be annoyed if they decided to use them only to find they had the same problems as being reported about apple maps.

 

[Bungle73]

But they're not "free". Maps are an advertised feature of the phone, and as such there is a reasonable expectation for them to work properly.

 

[Geezertronic]

But they're not "free". Maps are an advertised feature of the phone, and as such there is a reasonable expectation for them to work properly.

The IOS6 maps offering is free (just like the Google app it replaced), because above and beyond the price of the iPhone you don't pay any extra for the app, pay for the use of it, or will have to pay for upgrades (unlike Tomtom for example).

 

[Yew]

The IOS6 maps offering is free (just like the Google app it replaced), because above and beyond the price of the iPhone you don't pay any extra for the app, pay for the use of it, or will have to pay for upgrades (unlike Tomtom for example).

However it is advertised, so Is part of the price of the iphone.

 

[SS4]

It doesn't fit in with Apple's ethos of providing a slick user interface, I'm surprised they released it as though it were a finished product, surely it would have been more productive to keep google maps as default (assuming they were in a position to do so which is by no means certain) and market their own version as a beta until the UI/app improved.

Then again I may be in my Android mindset, do Apple users mind betas?

 

[Geezertronic]

However it is advertised, so Is part of the price of the iphone.

I would still take issue with that. The map functionality is part of the IOS and without wading through the Apple's T&Cs for IOS 6 I am sure there is something in there that would deal with such an occasion whereby they could remove the maps functionality in future updates. They wouldn't of course but that doesn't mean they couldn't

 

[GB]

It doesn't fit in with Apple's ethos of providing a slick user interface, I'm surprised they released it as though it were a finished product, surely it would have been more productive to keep google maps as default (assuming they were in a position to do so which is by no means certain) and market their own version as a beta until the UI/app improved.

Then again I may be in my Android mindset, do Apple users mind betas?

I don't think they have done it to have a slick interface. Other than the pinch zoom and rotate gestures there is little between them. I think its more that Apple want another chunk of another pie.

As for betas, I personally don't have a problem with them provided it is made clear it is a beta.

Perhaps Google wanted too much money from Apple.

As for free or not I think that depends on your position. If you already had an ipad, ipod or iphone then yes, it was free to upgrade and free to use. If you had bought one of them specifically after iOS6 was released, then given Apple Maps was advertised as a big part of the system then I think its fair to say you have paid for it.

 

[BananaRepublic]

.....I think its more that Apple want another chunk of another pie.....

....Perhaps Google wanted too much money from Apple....

Google were withholding certain features of the Google Maps app from Apple, such as the turn-by-turn navigation.
These features are available on Google's own Android version of the app.

Apple wanted to have turn-by-turn navigation etc, but with Google unwilling to play ball and the license contract due to expire next year, Apple will have faced a choice of trying to get a deal with Google (looked unlikely by all accounts), finding a new partner to supply a Map app, or go it alone.

Clearly this app has been rushed to release way too soon - very unlike Apple!

Having never had a Sat nav, I wonder about those from Tom Tom, who supply the mapping data for Apple Maps?

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Clearly this app has been rushed to release way too soon - very unlike Apple!

Try telling that to the early adopters of Final Cut Pro X! And some here may remember the disaster that was the launch of MobileMe about 4 years ago.
But perhaps you were being ironic.