Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:17AM
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> once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me?
I don't think it's just you. :) I know a fair number of iOS users who switched to the standalone Google Maps app during the, shall we say, rocky first year of Apple Maps, and who I've never been able to convince to look back -- and these are people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Apple Maps is arguably at its best.
Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap
by DonHopkins on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:01AM
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Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"
Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap
by devilbunny on Thursday November 03, 2022 @02:26PM
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Give Apple Maps a shot in an area you know well. In my experience, GMaps is better in terms of knowing what's around you and the traffic - but AMaps gives much more easily-followed directions and doesn't do silly routes to save five seconds' time.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tomtom
.. that's also when I stopped using them I think, and what's interesting is that once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me? (I want to try Apple because I like them more than Google but I'm just so used to Google Maps)