Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by zippergz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:03PM (#22194277)

This is absolutely true, but it's not unique to Apple Maps. I've had an issue with the major road near my house in Google Maps for over three years, where it thinks a certain stretch is either absent or impassible. It shows it on the visual map, but it will go to astounding lengths to route you around that one-block stretch of (perfectly fine) road. I have reported it MANY times, and nothing has ever changed.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by chipperyman573 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:30PM (#22194546)

I report things on GMaps all the time and it usually updates the maps within minutes (I get an email)

I'm also a local guide though so that might have something to do with it

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by icebraining on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:34PM (#22194588)

Same here, though it's usually a few hours, not minutes. I'm not in the US, tough, it may be that there are different review teams for different areas.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by m4rtink on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:37PM (#22194623)

That's the nice thing with OpenStreetMap & mapping services using data from it.

You can just register to OSM and fix the data and that's it. The OSM interface will update almost instantly while services based on OSM data will get the fix once they do their next data update.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by briandear on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:53PM (#22196162)

What’s to protect against false/bad/malicious data?

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by mistrial9 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:23PM (#22197100)

OSM edits have been an "optimistic lock" -- changes are deemed good until they are proven not good.. all changes in OSM have an author ID associated, so that they can search and "rollback" bad changes.. it has been that way since the beginning..

post-New York renamed and a few other embarrassments, there are new steps added for verification, by some workflows, but it is in transition AFAIK

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by FireBeyond on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:30PM (#22194554)

I have something like that too. There's a one block section that didn't have a road through it due to a water tower, but now (as in 10 years ago) does. Apple Maps routes me around it constantly. Despite error submissions _and_ the trip data that they must have, showing multitudes of vehicles apparently driving through a field to continue on the road... no change.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by psadri on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:42PM (#22194675)

Google and Apple should be able to infer the presence/status of roads based on telemetry from all the phones out there in the world. If a bunch of people regularly pass through a path at a car like speed, it’s likely a road.

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