10-30-2012, 12:04 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Cool Ville
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type in gas station, ever major oil and gas company dt is popped up.
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10-30-2012, 12:11 PM
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Scoring Winger
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My only complaint with Apple maps, which speaks volumes for what a great job Google has done with their product, is that it is highly intolerant to typos. You misspell by one letter the Apple product will either not find it or find the wrong one. Google Maps however is intelligent enough to find a location like it or offer suggestions and actually put in your current location into consideration.
Usually for me when Apple maps finds the wrong thing it is because it wasn't entered exactly, which sucks as sometimes I'm not sure exactly how to spell the address. If I have the address spelt right, it has found it all the time for me.
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10-30-2012, 12:24 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I think about 50% of the times I've tested out Apple maps since I upgraded, some sort of mistake was made. The routes being wrong or longer than necessary is pretty common. Finding places by searching for the name, rather than the actual address, is a mess. It's annoying that I'll have to be checking the directions twice or more every time now if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar.
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10-30-2012, 12:26 PM
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#44
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by fundmark19
weird I just typed in scotiabank and it found 10 near me. Try a new bank?
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I call bull crap on that. Scotiabank doesn't have 10 branches in Alberta! most useless bank in Canada... hahaha
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10-30-2012, 12:32 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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I wish Google would release a third-party Maps app for iOS already seeing as how iOS Chrome is 1000x better than the pre-installed version of Safari.
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Connor Zary will win the Hart Trophy in 2027.
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10-30-2012, 12:56 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by saskflames69
I wish Google would release a third-party Maps app for iOS already seeing as how iOS Chrome is 1000x better than the pre-installed version of Safari.
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iOS Chrome is Safari - exact same browser engine.
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10-30-2012, 01:44 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Davenport, Iowa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fundmark19
weird I just typed in scotiabank and it found 10 near me. Try a new bank?
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The new "you're holding it wrong"...
"You should just change your bank to one Apple Maps can find! You're banking wrong."
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10-30-2012, 01:49 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
The new "you're holding it wrong"...
"You should just change your bank to one Apple Maps can find! You're banking wrong."
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Why would you possibly want to bank with someone who Apple obviously doesn't see fit enough to even put them on a map. If Apple doesn't think I should know about something then obviously I will not care about it. That is what a good little sheep fan boi does right?
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10-30-2012, 02:40 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Always sound advice to have a paper map backup. Electronic devices die, take you to the wrong place, etc. Being able to read a map properly is a skill which everyone should have so that when the GPS spits out a location in the middle of a mountain range, you can quickly surmise that perhaps your GPS is out to lunch that day.
I always take paper maps with me when I go to visit new locations on holidays. The TomTom app on my phone is pretty awesome but it's not perfect that's for sure.
BUT - yes, Apple maps suck.
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10-30-2012, 03:03 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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^Great thing about the Nexus 7 is being able to download google maps areas onto your device. If you know you're going somewhere, just save that area onto the device - no need to have any connection to anything to use it.
I guess the device itself could somehow just stop working, but that seems like a relatively remote risk.
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10-30-2012, 03:36 PM
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#51
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Originally Posted by AR_Six
^Great thing about the Nexus 7 is being able to download google maps areas onto your device. If you know you're going somewhere, just save that area onto the device - no need to have any connection to anything to use it.
I guess the device itself could somehow just stop working, but that seems like a relatively remote risk.
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Do you just mean the offline map storage? Without a data connection it won't calculate the routes, even if you have maps downloaded from Google. Unless that is something really new that was introduced.
I tried to do that when I went to the states and didn't want to get charged roaming, and it didn't work out, although I at least had the maps around Glacier National Park and Spokane.
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10-30-2012, 03:49 PM
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#52
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
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One of the more recent Android updates supports it I think.
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10-30-2012, 04:19 PM
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Franchise Player
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I believe you can save maps and routes, but once you're offline you can't get new directions or search for places. So it's not a total replacement for having data access, but it's still a cool feature.
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10-30-2012, 05:52 PM
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#54
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Rathji
Can a mod change the thread title to "I don't know how to use GPS, EAD".
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I'd prefer "A place where butt hurt Apple fan boys can unite".
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10-30-2012, 05:54 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Burninator
Well I am trying to find the bank that I use, not just any bank.
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Try banks that show up on Apple Maps, not ones that have dorsal fins on their business cards.
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10-30-2012, 05:56 PM
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#56
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Everything is amazing and no one is happy.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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Wrong. Everything except maps on the iphone is amazing. I would be much happier if I had no maps app than one that doesn't work.
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10-30-2012, 06:03 PM
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#57
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Franchise Player
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Google maps > Apple maps. Using the browser version of google maps simply isn't a realistic alternative. It's terrible in fact. I won't update my phone until I can download a copy of a google maps app.
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10-30-2012, 09:01 PM
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#58
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First Line Centre
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...497916304.html
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Apple Inc. executive Scott Forstall was asked to leave the company after he refused to sign his name to a letter apologizing for shortcomings in Apple's new mapping service, according to people familiar with the matter.
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10-30-2012, 09:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Who would have thought mapping every place in the world and how to get there would be so hard?
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10-30-2012, 09:52 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnes
Who would have thought mapping every place in the world and how to get there would be so hard?
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lol, it's not like Apple is out there in a boat discovering the world.
No one forced Apple to replace a product with their inferior version either. It was a stupid move, so stupid we've seen shake ups at the executive level because of it.
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