Google Maps really needs work

It gives some ridiculous results in The Bronx, NY. For instance, plot the
directions from 380 W. Tremont Avenue to 379 W. Tremont Avenue, or vice
versa, in the Bronx. There's no way those two addresses are that far apart.

Then plot the location of 8033 W. Tremont Avenue (an address used in last
night's episode of Elementary on CBS).

 

Sticking with iOS 5 for the foreseeable future.

We saw the pilot of Elementary - not sure we'll continue. Anyway now
that I've severed the cable, I'll have to wait 'til it goes "web".

Maybe I'll set up an antenna to catch HDTV...

 

Maybe you should see if Apple Maps can find 77 Sunset Strip?

 

Aside from some bizarre things like that, it is full of errors. It has
a minimum of two errors in street names (including the street where I
live) in my city. And Google Maps isn't just picking on this city; it's
an equal-opportunity bucket of bugs.

 

I haven't gotten a bum steer from GMaps to date. I have gotten routings
that were not optimal, but they weren't grossly off.

Sticking to iOS 5 for the foreseeable future.

A friend of mine was over last night all atwitter over the iPhone 5 but
reluctant to give up Street View (He's a technical specialist and calls
on clients all over the region. He likes to check street view so he can
eyeball the place before he drives up. Saves him time in locating
addresses and parking).

His daughter is salivating over the prospect of taking over his iPhone
4. The pressure is on...

 

It has major problems with small town and rural addresses in many areas,
however.

No Street View? I'm happier than ever that I don't have to use it!
Street View is often how I refine searches.

 

I haven't gotten a bum steer from GMaps to date. I have gotten routings
that were not optimal, but they weren't grossly off.[/QUOTE]

Well, it's grossly off for some addresses on West Tremont Avenue in The
Bronx, NY. Apple's new Maps gets it right.

Whatever. If Maps is the most important part of the OS for you, I can
understand your concern, but the flaws in the database are rapidly being
fixed, and as I've shown, Google's Maps data are not perfect.

 

Aside from some bizarre things like that, it is full of errors. It has
a minimum of two errors in street names (including the street where I
live) in my city. And Google Maps isn't just picking on this city; it's
an equal-opportunity bucket of bugs.[/QUOTE]

The reason I checked that area was because of the reference in that TV
show, and it being in the general area where I grew up.

 

Maybe you should see if Apple Maps can find 77 Sunset Strip?[/QUOTE]

Which one: Sunrise, FL, Anderson, MO, Nags Head, NC, Elwood, NE, Manyana,
NSW, Dagsboro, DE, Jan Juc, VIC, Ocean Grove, BIC, Show Low, AZ, or
Cloudcroft, NM?

 

Well, it's grossly off for some addresses on West Tremont Avenue in The
Bronx, NY. Apple's new Maps gets it right.

Whatever. If Maps is the most important part of the OS for you, I can
understand your concern, but the flaws in the database are rapidly being
fixed, and as I've shown, Google's Maps data are not perfect.[/QUOTE]

I have other reasons to prefer Google Maps, one being a month worth of
recording tracks of trails in the woods (two locations) and then
painstakingly entering them in Google Map Maker. Google Maps directions
will even plot the best track through the wood trail network when in
"pedestrian" mode... (I don't 'need' that, but it's cool to show people).

BTW: It's all very nice Michelle that you're sifting through the small,
small number of Google Maps errors to diminish the Apple Map fiasco but
it doesn't stick.

It will take Apple likely a year to get it to an error rate comparable
to Google Maps.

 

It's my opinion. Believe it or not there is no requirement on usenet to
post only things that can be backed up with data nor to write
disclaimers with every utterance.

 

I didn't sift through anything; I stumbled across it when checking an
address on a TV show. If the address had not been purported to be in the
area where I grew up, I wouldn't have bothered.

 

Hollywood, CA isn't listed because 77 isn't a real address on Sunset.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I know. But you didn't say Hollywood, or even California. So I
jokingly asked which one you meant.

BTW, try 221B Baker Street.

 

Got some data to back up that assertion?[/QUOTE]

google has been working on maps for nearly a decade

apple has been working on maps for a few years.

a year to fix things is very optimistic.

 

Michelle, it is not realistic for Apple to fix flaws in a matter of
weeks. For one thing, they do not have the army of people to fix them,
and even with Google's 7000 mapping employees, we are talking about
years, not weeks.

 

For every stumble you make with Google Maps many more other people are
stumbling over more with Apple Maps. That will take a long time to
wring out.

 

google has been working on maps for nearly a decade

apple has been working on maps for a few years.

a year to fix things is very optimistic.[/QUOTE]

OK, no data; just an opinion.

 

For every stumble you make with Google Maps many more other people are
stumbling over more with Apple Maps. That will take a long time to
wring out.[/QUOTE]

So what is your point? Note that the subject of this thread says that
Google maps needs much less work than Apple maps. All you're doing is
confirming what I said in the first place.

 

OK, no data; just an opinion.[/QUOTE]

the first two are data. you might consider the third to be an opinion,
but it's the only possibility given the first two items.

 

So what is your point? Note that the subject of this thread says that
Google maps needs much less work than Apple maps. All you're doing is
confirming what I said in the first place.[/QUOTE]

The title says that now because I changed it.