Apple

It’s not “better.” But it’s fine, it’s there by default, and it doesn’t send my precise location to Google.

It has become my “dad time” Sunday morning activity to submit corrections to Apple Maps in my area. The area where I live was recently designated a national park so we receive a ton of tourists and this is like my little way of helping

I switched to Apple Maps because Google Maps lies too much and gives worse directions.

I decided to start walking to one of my jobs. I didn’t know the way walking since I always took the train. Google told me it would take about 45 minutes. It took nearly an hour, and Google had me take all these back roads I would never be able to remember.

The next week, I tried Apple Maps. It told me it would take 55 minutes, and gave me this very clear route that was easy to remember. And it did little things, like have covered roads be a slightly different color than regular roads.

I’m not sure how it is for driving, but for walking directions, Apple Maps is so much better.

I prefer it in most cases. I still will spot check it against Google for POI data, but I find the map easier to use, the transmit more accurate, and the integration with the phone better.

It’s not better. But I use it. Why? Google maps changes my route without asking me, over and over.

I hate when Google is like "here is every thing you did last month" it's a reminder wow I need to get this thing off my phone.

I'd switch from Waze in a heartbeat if Apple added the ability to show the current speed and speed limit of the street/road I'm on.

Yeah I prefer it now too, even here in The Netherlands. I like the interface better and the native CarPlay integration is a huge plus, especially because it works with both my car screens.

There is however still a lot of room for improvement, for example, it doesn’t clearly show how much time you lose in a traffic jam when looking on the zoomed out 2d view (which is what I use most). And I would love to see the feature TomTom used to show my average speed in a speed controlled zone.

I feel like the bit that gets missed in these conversations is how terrible Waze has become in the last few years. The UI has always been awful, but it’s started just straight up not working any more. Each release seems to introduce new bugs.

I can’t remember the last time I had an “oh shit, it saved me 20 minutes” moment with it. More often than not it seems like it’s just using me as an experiment to try out increasingly insane new routes for no benefit (I know it has to send a certain portion of its users on crazy routes to try them out, but it seems like it’s always me).

The only reason is to get reports of speed cameras, but Apple Maps has started doing that now and seems to be a bit less insane when it comes to routing.

It’s fine where it’s available, but having come back from Central America it sure seems like Apple has no plans to move in there.

Now if only Maps would remember to always navigate to my custom pin location for work rather than 50% of the time taking me to the physical address.

I like Apple Maps more too, though I still use Google Maps in some situations.

One of my biggest "dealbreakers" is that if you copy an address from Google it actually copies a giant google.com?etc=etc,etc=etc link, but Apple Maps copies the actual plaintext address.

Apple maps is better for me in larger cities for walking directions or for finding local restaurants and shops. I still prefer google maps for driving.

The only Google app I use is YouTube. I switched to iOS to stop all that spying and tracking to sell my data to anyone.