Part of that, I think, is that they think the GPS is giving them a more efficient route, or it’s detouring them around a traffic jam further ahead. The GPS never tells you why it sometimes chooses a non-obvious route.

Wish I had a dollar for every time an American asked me if I had a kangaroo in my back yard, or had a koala bear (not a bear, btw) as a pet …

Tools.

At some point shouldn’t it dawn on them that something’s wrong when the town they’re trying to get to has absolutely no roads!

I’ve been out there with the 40 plus degrees, you better darn well carry your own water, map or no map, that’s the land.

Frankly though, if Apple Maps if life-threatening to Anustralians they should get an award for improving the state of human kind. Maybe Apple could buy some radio stations and hire some DeeJays that aren’t life threatening to the civilized world.

Steve Jobs would never have approved this map app! Never!

You ‘Darwin award’ people suck. If your loved one got stuck unprepared you’d not be so quick to judge. I have learned to check two sources for a location. But I only started bothering AFTER Apple dumped Google maps.

stop bitchin’ people; use your own sense of intelligence or intuition too!

what really bugs me:
no competitor is more precise in all the same areas. whether all gps is based on tomtom or not.

the reason apple gets bashed then, must be logically:
1. marketing hype from competitors that advertise not their advantages but survive on bashing others’ inconsistent faults
2. bribed media
3. disinfo (Apple maps never had problems for many others)
4. common human stupidity
5. Apple being recession-proof, unlike ANY competitor, must be successful because they’re the evil-doers, the monopolizers, cheats, liars, profit mongers etc.

AS IF ANY competitors does not do at least as “badly” or worse! yet Apple, being so big, jealousy & crying over spilled milk fits, hence it’s so easy to blame Apple for all that is wrong, since those people or naysayers cry that if Apple claims to invent or change things or is the only one who thinks different, then Apple should take the blame for all. wow. what intelligent logic!

if you are logical, smart, you can not go wrong with Maps. stop blaming. start thinking. if you had any clue, you’d at least know that TomTom’s precision is Apple and competitors’ basis. fine, Apple chose tomtom, but then so did the competition. there’s also no competitor to tomtom that is infallible. so all those false arguments against apple are bogus, silly, exaggerated.

it’s exactly the same point when the Audi 200 model i think it was, that nearly collapsed Audi in the US market, just because some idiot lady couldn’t keep her foot of the gas & blamed it on Audi’s defect. 1 silly story blown out of proportion in the media can kill a company! imagine a world without Apple just because some moron has a vendetta. whether correct or not, why kill what is still the best overall co. in the world, affecting the lives of so many happy users, just for the sake of an individual’s greed/idiocy?!

what naysayers or avengers do not get is that they’re totally selfish in their stupid, senseless acts. give me one other co. that tries as hard as Apple to give more than it takes, that humanizes high tech as much, that has a vision at least, that makes things as easy & ubiquitous.

you can not innovate every 1/2 year for god’s sake! Apple never claims they invent all, just that they do it better. if you bitch about Maps or Siri, well, show a better, more consistently precise alternative before you open your silly big mouth. it’s always that there’s nothing better. until then, shh. and for your silly, low % experience, most are happy. go bark elsewhere.

apple is not perfect. but it’s the closest to perfection there is in the market. no one tries harder. period. now go masturbate to your fave co., stfu, be happy with your chaos ware – which you obviously don’t seem to be or else you wouldn’t bitch at Apple due to jealousy and/or Stockholm Syndrome.

These weren’t people getting lost hiking say the Grand Canyon. They may not have been as prepared as they should have been, but at least get their circumstances right.

Meanwhile.the National Park service administered by the U.S. dept of the interior asks us Please do not feed the animals. Their stated reason for this policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not take care of themselves

Apple because in this case it’s placed Mildura literally in the middle of nowhere. There’s no geographical formation or area called Mildura in the area Apple claims the town is located. Is it a map partner’s fault? Maybe, but regardless, Apple shoulders more of the responsibility–it’s *their* product offering the end-user sees, *they* pushed it as being ready for prime time.

The end user is also at fault because after years of warnings about GPS directions not being 100% accurate, users are *still* blindly following TBT directions without double-checking the routing first.

Having said that, I agree that no map system is flawless. For example, on Google Maps, the South Island township of Cave appears as “Care”, and the unsealed but popular Dansey’s Pass scenic road from Ranfurly to Duntroon doesn’t appear at all.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/30/3362727/death-by-gps-in-desert.html

Apple appears to be rapidly fixing the data problems with its map service. I did not agree with MDN’s Take on this subject when it was originally posted, and I still don’t agree with it. The debut of Apple Maps was not Apple’s finest moment, but it will not “always suck” in the minds of the public. That is overly dramatic and unworthy of MDN.

It is a monumental flop as is Siri as either app is truly 10% ready for primetime. Windows Vista anyone.

And a surprising number of people, probably the vast majority, never double-check the route their GPS gives them before heading off. I double-check any destination I’m not familiar with, even in my own city. Sometimes even to places I do know, just to see whether Apple’s routing agrees with mine. About half the time, mine’s better, the other half it does come back with a more efficient route.

First impression might already be lost, but they still need to fix what’s there!

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

When the president touts the life of Julia and how she’d barely survive without government…

NEED. YOU. ASK!!!

The maps app apparently has some problems in certain areas, but if they are getting their info from Tom Tom, is there any history of similar problems with the Google maps rollout or with GPS devices? I remember my Magellan GPS pulling a lot of funny business on me over the years, and I never once even imagined crying “victim”.

Please, many many people are just stupid. You cannot fix that by complaining when Apple is not PERFECT… Google maps are wrong very often. Many times I find that a store or house is located up to a mile incorrectly using Google. Lately, Apple has been MORE ACCURATE.

So, chill. Its the holidays. Eat some pumpkin pie and mellow out.
PS. Happy Holidays!!! And I love the site, bugs and all. It is THE BEST place to get news about Apple from around the world.

Just some praise… en