The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now

Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by brassattax on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @06:21PM (#31333440)

Where I live this is the way we give directions (e.g. 2 blocks past McDonald's take a right), so to me it feels more natural than looking for a street name.

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by bch on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:50PM (#31334129)

Next level will be detecting if you’re local to the area and using descriptions of landmarks that used to be there but aren’t present anymore.

  Turn left where the Tastee-Freeze used to be.

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by quesera on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:54PM (#31334984)

With apologies to Laurie Anderson:

  Hey Siri! How do I get to town from here?

  And she said:
  Well just take a right where they're going to build that new shopping mall
  Go straight past where they're going to put in the freeway
  Take a left at what's going to be the new sports center
  And keep going until you hit the place where
  They're thinking of building that drive-in bank
  You can't miss it.

  And I said: This must be the place

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by caycep on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:13PM (#31342918)

you never know, with GANs and transformer models, DALL-E type models, and stuff, Siri just might be able to come up with that in the near future

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by codegrappler on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:44PM (#31335307)

You know, the one where you tripped and chipped your tooth in the fourth grade…

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Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now by kshacker on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:44PM (#31334928)

You missed it last time don't do that again :)

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