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Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by lbotos on Thursday September 20, 2012 @11:52AM (#4549140)
So I've been seeing all this hatin' on HN this morning so I figured I should check it out on my device. I mapped my commute (1 hour) and the only oddity I saw was the waviness coming off of a bridge. Beyond that Philly's buildings were all rendered correctly and my route was exactly the same as Google maps. YMMV

P.S. I must say It was really cool to see Cira Centre (The Amtrak Building) rendered in 3d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cira_Centre

Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by misnome on Thursday September 20, 2012 @12:58PM (#4549483)
Try living somewhere that isn't a big US city. Of course the major population centers are going to be highly worked on. It's elsewhere, that google maps has gotten so good on, that people are complaining about.

The satellite imagery is as bad as googles was, but more than six years ago.

Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by akoumjian on Thursday September 20, 2012 @01:23PM (#4549587)
Actually, even in big US cities results are really bad in some cases. in Seattle, for example, searching for common well known intersections brings up results halfway across the country.
Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by mikeash on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:12PM (#4549858)
I hit a maps link for a restaurant in the Maryland suburbs of DC, which had latitude and longitude in it, and it still took me to the wrong place. Removing the restaurant name and just leaving the lat/lon showed the right place, but of course I didn't figure this out until I had already driven past the wrong place and wondered where the restaurant was.

It's just atrocious. OK, so you have some bad POI coordinates, that's bad but somewhat understandable. But how do you prefer your bad POI data to the correct coordinates that you're given? It boggles the mind.

Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps by protomyth on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:38PM (#4550556)
For rural ND, it looks like Apple's maps are about 6 - 9 months closer to current.