Map alternatives

[Horsehaulin]

I thought the maps were only screwed up in select locations that you heard about in the first news reports. I go to Clemson University and was looking at the maps there and there's roads and intersections there that are going through or sitting right on top of buildings, going through fields...all kinds of crazy stuff! Why did apple try and even do their own maps? I was hoping as google maps kept evolving on the iPhone we'd eventually see more and more new features including Street View. Now it just seems like we took about 20 steps backwards!

I looked at Clemson just now with a hybrid map and things looked fine. I see sidewalks leading to buildings, but no roads through?

Edit:

I see one mistake, Feeley St goes right through a building, but if you look at the map closely, you will see that the building is under construction and likely has not been reported to USGS for map corrections yet. Yes, you found a mistake, but it takes at least a year for those changes to be made to any map.

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I found about four streets, all with buildings that have been constructed in the last three years. This is normal and not Apples fault. There are streets local to me that have existed for five years and still not on Google Maps. Some things are out of any map makers control, this is one of them. It's also possible that Clemson has not reported these changes to the Government for map adjustments.

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[cadetandrew]

I am having very limited issues with iOS 6 Maps. Apple is doing a decent job in improving them.

Google Maps can still be used on the iOS device by going to maps.google.com and saving it as a bookmark on the home screen.

As far as an alternative, I would choose MapQuest. It's completely free and fast. The best thing about it is it offers free voice navigation and is INSANELY accurate.

[topgun80]

For a purchased app., TomTom or Navigon are hard to beat.

[ClemsonMarshal]

I looked at Clemson just now with a hybrid map and things looked fine. I see sidewalks leading to buildings, but no roads through?

Edit:

I see one mistake, Feeley St goes right through a building, but if you look at the map closely, you will see that the building is under construction and likely has not been reported to USGS for map corrections yet. Yes, you found a mistake, but it takes at least a year for those changes to be made to any map.

Second edit:

I found about four streets, all with buildings that have been constructed in the last three years. This is normal and not Apples fault. There are streets local to me that have existed for five years and still not on Google Maps. Some things are out of any map makers control, this is one of them. It's also possible that Clemson has not reported these changes to the Government for map adjustments.

This image is of the Hendrix center and the intersection right next to it. All construction around this building has been finished for at least 5 or more years.
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This is the back of the library and this courtyard with the X shaped sidewalks has been there for at least 5 or more years also. I've found several others but these are just 2 quick examples.
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Question though...these are screen shots taken off of my iPhone 4. I just got my iPhone 5 yesterday and when I look at that same are at the same zoom on the hybrid map, I don't see any white lines over the road indicating a street. The only one that shows up close to there for me is 93.

[Lita]

I second GPS Motion X Drive. Been using it for years.

[cuskit]

As previously mentioned, I'm in Central NJ. Well, last week I had an appointment about 1/2 drive from my house. The appointment was located in a small shopping center just off the major highway I was taking to get there. About two miles before the shopping center a huge 5 car accident had taken place maybe 15 minutes before I got to that area - traffic was backed up almost a mile - sitting like a parking lot. I flipped out my phone, chose Apple maps with my current location and selected an alternate route. A right turn just two car lengths ahead of me took me through "turn by turn" directions which had me driving on some back roads - including through a large housing complex (the type with cookie cutter houses) and then entering the shopping center through a back entrance I didn't even know was there. Maps SAVED my day and had me five minutes early to my appointment. Without it I would have been stuck in that stopped traffic for hours! Every turn announced was exactly as depicted on the map with no errors at all.

So, again, in my area - Maps seems to be flawless. I'll know more next month with a four hour trip out to Pennsylvania. Looking forward to that!

[hookbill]

Based on what cuskit say maybe I should give the stock navigator a chance. I have mapquest in stalled, that's what I was going to use.

Stock maps did make an error on my one and only test, but it was almost an acceptable error. But I knew where I was going, someone else would have been in a parking lot for a water park that will be opening Memorial Day 2013.

[hookbill]

Hey I want to follow up on this. Today I had to go to a location I'm not familiar with. I was going to use the mapquest app but not voice activation and I didn't want to type.

So I just brought up Siri and said navigate to and she looked it up and off we went.

Just when I started getting close I was told to turn right in 1/2 of mile but no street name was given, then just turn right. Too late, I already passed. But immediately Maps told me to turn left on a street a mile down the road. Then it took me another 1/2 mile and another left. And then about a mile and another left. Then before I knew it I heard turn right 500 ft to Center St. And there I was.

I thought that worked well, it knew I blew the turn and immediately mapped me a route back to my destination. Not bad for such a defective app IMHO.

[techjunkie26]

Big google maps fan myself. Apple...if its not fixed don't change it. I imagine it has to do with phone and patent wars between google and apple.

[ClemsonMarshal]

Here's another example of where Apple's maps are very inaccurate when it comes to their streets...as everyone keeps saying the only problems with Apple maps is on new roads. These roads in this area have been exactly as they lie since the 40s (possibly even before that).


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