Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by reptation on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:10PM
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n=1 but the built-in Maps on iphone seems to be fine these days. Doesn't steer me wrong, integrates with a car. Not sure what the moat here is other than name recognition or current popularity. Perhaps app integration or API consumption?
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Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by Reason077 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:20PM
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Apple Maps, and the huge number of products based on OpenStreetMap are perfectly fine as maps. And actually, even better than Google Maps in many cases.
But where Google Maps still dominates is in its unrivalled, global point of interest (POI) data. Accurate business locations, opening hours, photos, reviews, etc... nobody else comes close.
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by jimbokun on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:33PM
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Yea, I'm planning a vacation, and using a saved lists of places in Google maps to keep track of all the places I'm interested in seeing. Clicking on one of the saved places brings up all the information you mention.
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by aniforprez on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:51PM
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Honestly Apple Maps isn't even particularly good outside of the US and a few European countries. Roads are constantly out of date and can barely keep up and landmarks and businesses in tons of major cities aren't close to correct
Not to mention its complete inability to reroute sometimes if you take the wrong turn. It'll keep yelling to return to the route over and over instead of routing a turnaround somewhere.
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by Reason077 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:29PM
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This can happen if you've lost the data connection, perhaps? In my (UK) experience, Apple Maps is perfectly good at re-routing. Even if you haven't made a wrong turn, it'll sometimes suggest new routes anyway based on live traffic.
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by tombert on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:59PM
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It's not particularly good within the US outside of a few of the big cities.
Dallas has a lot of parallel highways/roads, and Apple Maps seems to get really confused and have to recalculate the route every few minutes when I'm down there. Google seems to understand it perfectly and simply doesn't do that.
Clicking the auto-link of my address on an iOS device will open a route in Apple Maps to an address with a different street name on the wrong U.S. state. Apple Maps has come a long way, but it still doesn’t cut it.
Accuracy of local business listings on Apple is still far behind Google. And Apple's new business admin interface is only slightly less trash than it's old one.
As others have said: POI data. If you don't have (the cancer that is) Yelp installed, you don't even get reviews.