Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by jws on Monday November 11, 2013 @09:32AM (#6711734)

I find both Apple and Google unresponsive to user corrections. Since iOS released maps it has shown a hospital near me that has long been closed, demolished, and rebuilt as a retirement community. The hospital itself moved about 10 miles west to a different community, yet there it is on the map in all its pink glory.

In the course of a "google maps doesn't have these problems" discussion I pulled up Google maps, and lo and behold, it has the same problem.

Fast forward to the present and they both still show this long dead hospital despite me taking the time to send in corrections from time to time. For a long time the new location was trivially verifiable by following the map's own web link. Now that URL is dead, so it would require a quick search and a tiny bit of thought.

I hope no one relies on that information in an emergency to get someone to a hospital.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by myko on Monday November 11, 2013 @01:41PM (#6713135)

I reported two issues to Google Maps on a recent trip to Ireland and the UK, both have been fixed and I received followup emails from Google Maps on the issues.

These were reported via Google Maps on Android.

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Re:Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won by groks on Monday November 11, 2013 @10:59AM (#6712189)

In addition to reporting problems, you can edit it yourself: https://maps.google.com/mapmaker -- faster turnaround.

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