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To: Stentor
Every time I drive somewhere with someone who has an Iphone, we play a game with Apple maps. For the game not to be a disaster, you have to know where you’re going. Put Maps on and wait for the misdirection. It’s kind of funny. Wrong turns in Bucks County PA, dead ends off route 70 in New Jersey when your destination is a large hotel on route 70 etc. Thanks for the entertainment. Love Waze.

Misdirection? In that it differs from your Waze? How many times did you play this so called game? Frankly, I'd guess once.

I have had one misdirection from Maps since it debuted in iOS 6 at the June 2012 WWDC. . . and that was because there were two identical addresses in two different towns on the same street. . . same road. . . in the same county in the South Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. This was the very first week that Maps was out. Adding the exact town solved the problem.

Just last month a search in Sacramento put a business I was seeking by name in a residential area. . . but when I tried it in Google Maps, the business was shown to be in the exact same location. When I drove to the area, the business was located in a shopping center that extended far back. . . and the residential area streets had an access.

The previous month, my girlfriend and I were going to a party up in the Sierra Nevada foothills north of San Andreas. Google Maps sent us on a route that took us off the main roads onto a dirt road where the POTHOLES could have swallowed a Volkswagen—and the low angle of the setting sun that day made them impossible to see. The one we dropped into was over four feet across and two deep and cost me over $1000 damage to my car ($500 insurance deductible). . . and injured me and my girlfriend. We had to call a tow truck to pull us out of the one we wound up in. We were lucky the car was still drivable—if not still aligned—and hours late for the party.

A month later, Apple Maps provided a far better routing to the same destination using main roads. . . and it was only about four tenths of a miles longer than the route Google came up with but with fewer turns. . . and all the roads were PAVED with not one pothole!

16 posted on 06/10/2014 9:48:46 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
. . . and that was because there were two identical addresses in two different towns on the same street. . .

Ha-ha, same thing happened to us with Google Maps, it's been a few years. A bunch of distant family members from around the country gathered in Philadelphia for a wedding. One of my sisters used her mapping in her car to guide us and others in several other cars to find the church. After a long drive for thirty minutes and us honking at her, we arrived and no church. Identical street address and street, but wrong town. We got to the right place late. Turns out the right place was just ten minutes from our hotels. She never trusted the maps after that.

19 posted on 06/10/2014 10:50:35 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Swordmaker
How many times did you play this so called game? Frankly, I'd guess once.

It so cute that you accuse me of lying in service of your fanboy/shill activities. I gave two examples. It's happened multiple times and it is not improving. Why can I admit that even the Iphone 5's camera runs rings around my Note 2. Because I am not a delusional pinhead and don't wear Samsung underwear.

Sorry you missed the party at Tim's house.

21 posted on 06/10/2014 11:39:35 AM PDT by Stentor (Maybe the Goldman Sachs thing is just a coincidence. /S)
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To: Swordmaker
Sword, Sometimes the directions are good, sometimes bad. I almost died laughing yesterday when I asked it to direct me to the nearest starbucks.  According the the directions, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Granted, it managed to get me there in only 5 miles. The kicker, our local starbucks is a really direct route of less than half a mile. I walk when it isn't too hot. I really should have taken a picture of it.

 

39 posted on 06/10/2014 7:38:21 PM PDT by zeugma (I have never seen anyone cross the street to avoid a black man in a suit.)
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