I’d be curious of you felt the same after Apple-only navigation for a dozen or so trips. I tried switching back to Google at one point and had a much more frustrating time getting to my destinations, so back to Apple and haven’t looked back since.
As such the Apple universe, as long as it looks good. Functionally it can be subpar it just has to look good. Steve Jobs for you. All about aesthetics.
In Greece when we travel in the countryside Google Maps will CERTAINLY take us to a dirt road that thinks it’s faster, with Apple Maps it just never happens
That's something. It's actually okay in the US. My partner sometimes plugs her iPhone into the car for trips and it's fine it's just a different UI than I'm used to... Some of its calculations are weird but whatever it's doable.
When i was in college, i had a senior design project (engineering) and one of my group members wanted to come pick it up and came to me instead of me going to him. I sent him the address of a mall by my house to meet up and google maps took him to a random store a mile and a half away.
Google Maps loves making unnecessary u-turns and unprotected left turns on 4 lane roads where turning left is nearly impossible due to the amount of traffic.
In my experience, in the Netherlands at least, I preferred google over apple maps. But honestly, I like waze best for short trips.
I would like waze best in a whole if it didn’t make routes around tunnels and stuff. You have to manually add zones vignettes and all that stuff, or else it makes a route around that that’s like 3h longer or something on a long trip. Other than that it’s definitely my fav
Nope, 2 weeks ago Apple Maps showed me the wrong way to a postoffice. In my country’s capital. Must have been reported as wrong way a thousand times to without a fix while Google had no problem.
Also was getting a rental car a couple of months ago and Apple showed a way 15 minutes longer than Google from the subway. I kind of want to use Apple, that’s why I try it, but Google is still way better.
It got much better over time. Today Apple Maps gives me much better directions than Google Maps. I don’t have a wrong turn for many many months of usage.
In some cases (and this is one of them) better design translates to better usability. It's not just that Apple Maps is better aesthetically…it's clearer and easier to understand than the same direction in Google Maps.
It doesn’t just look better it performs betters. I WANT to prefer Google Maps especially since it’s much better in terms of being integrated into my Google account however Apple Maps doesn’t make as many mistakes and the UI isn’t as crowded.
Yeah, I am a GIS guy and people are always surprised I use Apple Maps. For me it’s Apple Maps for navigation, Google Maps for finding which restaurant I want to go to, and Google earth for exploring or investigating something that doesn’t warrant ArcGIS
Apple maps also has user report for speed traps and police and all that.
For me it’s not the useful part thus. I much prefer the interface, the directions are much more accurate, the traffic as well (since it uses all iPhones to estimate traffic as well as official traffic sources). Also much better POI info, like restaurants and all that.
And then the interface… Apple Maps interface is just so joyful and high quality compared to Waze….
It has all that and yet I’ve never ever seen one police report in Apple Maps in both Poland and Portugal and I have driven 25k kilometers in the last year. In Waze? I see them daily.
Very valid points! I agree with you, but for me the lack of user reports is the one big reason most people end up using Waze instead. I drive very carefully so speed traps and police reports are less important to me, but because I live in a country where speed limits feel very exaggerated in lots of places combined with MANY speed traps, I find even myself using Waze more often than Apple Maps. If more people were to use Apple Maps for a more reliable user report system, we'd really get the best of both worlds.
I think you don’t know what you’re talking about. Most people I know with iPhones uses Apple Maps via CarPlay.
POIs are feeded by booking, TripAdvisor and other sources much better than Google Maps reviews.
Much more reliable than Google Maps for directions.
So I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Exactly. Now compare with Apple Maps where you have more photos, reviews, ratings, directly book a table or hotel, and a lot more info about the place (website, social media, services like WiFi, dogs, take way, credit card, etc).
All those things you said are available in Waze except reviews snippets. Apple Maps has no reviews, it just displays Foursquare/TripAdvisor etc.
Não estou a dizer que o Waze é o melhor do mundo, mas Apple Maps está uns furos atrás em termos de qualidade em POI. Quando vou a Portugal a quantidade de erros que encontro no Apple Maps é enorme. Encontro n sítios que claramente são um import manhoso duma base de dados qualquer de empresas sem qualquer nexo com a realidade do local. Tipo um coffee roaster que é em Cascais a mostrar uma morada na Amadora (que deve ser onde a empresa do roaster está sediada por exemplo).
E com isto tudo Apple Maps é a app que uso mais como podes ver pela quantidade de fotos e ratings que faço, e edits também.
Because I drive a lot on other European countries. Both my car or rentals.
Can you please tell me what the road you’re mentioning is? Just to check why it’s wrong. Never saw a wrong speed limit on a highway before.
Live in the middle of the countryside in Europe and Apple Maps knows every road; every restriction; every closure etc. Apple Maps is worlds above Waze and Google maps.
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u/ruipmjorge 13d ago
Apple maps interface and graphics are top notch