But their maps mostly look like the road atlases I remember. A failure of apple maps is that they don’t show junction numbers on the regular maps while google does. Motorways get blue labels but it’s the wrong shade and shape. On google maps, the motorways and A-roads are yellow.

Junction numbers show up as white-in-black-rounded-rectangle like on road signs. Motorways show up in blue with white-on-blue-rounded-rectangle labels (matching road signs) with A-roads in green. Apple maps have put a lot of effort into making the colour scheme and labels match existing maps. One thing that really winds me up is that the colour scheme in google maps is ‘wrong’ in the sense that it does not match existing local maps. So I guess I use Apple Maps because it doesn't have any of these extremely frustrating and borderline dangerous problems. Apple Maps detects this situation and automatically fixes it. Speaking of this nightmare scenario, Google Maps will also get stuck rapidly talking over itself if you accidentally select walking directions, but you are driving. Good luck if you don't know which direction is east.

'Head east on Pratt Avenue Northeast.' And if you start by traveling perpendicular to that direction, you'll often get, 'Head east on - Head east on - Head east on - Head east on -', repeating every time you pass an intersection, until you finally comply by heading east. Google Maps doesn't interrupt itself in this situation, and it is often extremely long winded.Įven when you start directions on Google Maps, you get a mostly pointless, long-winded direction. Here is a very common Google Maps direction from where I live: 'In 300 feet, keep left toward Alabama 231 South / Alabama 431 South / Memorial Parkway Southwest, then keep left onto Memorial Parkway Southwest.'īy the time Google Maps finishes reading this direction, it's taken so long that you will actually miss the next step in the directions. Google Maps is absolutely worst in class, behind all competitors I have ever used, in spoken directions. 'Go past this stop sign, then at the light, turn right on X Avenue' - it's exactly how you would expect human directions.

Spoken directions in Apple Maps are unmatched.

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