Sorry, but Apple’s maps flat out sucked in 1.0 release, it routinely directed me to the wrong addresses etc. It has improved, but to claim the app just had some 3D display issues is completely false.
Google Maps got to where they are today in large part because of all the data they collected being the default map program on the iPhone. I have no doubt Apple will continue to improve as the app has since its initial release, but you can’t blame apples map problems as purely a smear campaign orchestrated by google.
I did not say that. How is what you just said representative of what I said? NOTHING I said is "completely false". I find it funny that if it "routinely directed you to the wrong addresses etc." that you would continue to use it. Why would you keep using it? The Einsteinian definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing, expecting a different result! Usually, in my experience, people who say that don't even have an iPhone. LOL!
I said:
Actually, Apple Maps has been continuously overhauled over the last two years and is considerably better than what was released. It was actually pretty good then, with a few problems in the 3D views, but vastly overblown by Google’s FUD campaign. It has become imminently usable and I have been using it continuously over those two years and it has steered my wrong only once. . . compared to a dozen times that Google maps has sent me on wild goose chases.
What part of ". . . and is considerably better than what was released. . ." do you have a problem with? Let's look at my points one by one.
I and most of the people I have heard from, including many of the responses in the comments in the replies on the articles on reviews, have had very few issues with mis-direction from Apple Maps when they used direct input of actual address data. There were some misdirections. A Lot of the complaints came from overseas where the mapping was not complete. Most areas of the US were OK. I agree Maps definitely should have been released as a beta.
Apple was not doing the mapping or directions themselves. Apple Maps was using directions and mapping under contract only from TomTom, one of the largest map providers, while information on location of non-address data, location by businesses name came from Yelp. Most misdirection originated from putting in a business name and the error came from Yelp's errors of location from Yelp's approach in crowd sourcing of address information. . . Apple has been quite busy over the past two years in correcting those data.
Over the past two years, Apple has increased the sourcing of data included in Maps. They now use data from many sources to give a much more complete picture, more than what Google uses. As noted above in Overdog2's post, these include:
In addition to all that, Apple has been using one of the best sources of all: interactive anonymous data from the iPhones users themselves.
I did NOT say that the problems of Maps 1.0 were just in the 3D rendering. Next time, read what I actually said.