TomTom said it stands behind the quality of its maps but didn’t develop the app. “I am hoping in the next update they will somehow add transit directions.”Īpple’s map service comes with three-dimensional images of cities called “Flyover” along with real-time traffic updates and also turn-by-turn navigation, the last a feature that Google has in Android devices but had not made available in Apple devices.Īpple licenses mapping data from vehicle navigation systems maker TomTom. “My phone should be able to tell me which bus and train to take,” said Kenan Ali, a Brooklyn, New York, resident who exclusively uses public transport in the city and has been an iPhone user since 2008. Some joked that this was Apple’s effort at providing a diplomatic solution to Japan and China, both of which claim the islands.Ĭloser to home, New York city residents are unhappy that Apple maps doesn’t offer public transit directions, one of the most-used features on Google Maps in cities. Users in Asia were surprised to see two sets of the disputed territory of Senkaku Islands. He said this could be dangerous for pilots and suggested in a statement that Apple use the image of “a cow, a goat, a sheep, a flower” instead, and that an “aircraft is an entirely inappropriate flight of imagination.” Irish Minister for Justice Alan Shatter said he was surprised to discover that Airfield - a 35-acre estate with working farm and café in center of his constituency in Dundrum, Ireland - has been labeled with the image of an aircraft.

Some of the errors have even irked politicians. Pictures showed the Norwegian town of Leknes in the Norwegian sea, the entire city center of Stratford-upon-Avon is labeled as a hospital. Users have created a Tumblr blog sarcastically dubbed 'The Amazing iOS 6 Maps' where many have posted screen shots of the errors ( /).

Many users who downloaded Apple’s iOS 6 software, released on Wednesday, took to Twitter and online forums to express their frustration at the glitches. Welcome to the new world of Apple Maps that greeted iPhone and iPad users when they downloaded the highly anticipated update to the consumer giant’s mobile software platform, iOS 6.Īpple Inc’s home-grown Maps feature was introduced with much fanfare in June by Apple’s software chief Scott Forstall and is a direct challenge to the same service offered by friend-turned-rival Google Inc.īut the app is already facing criticism from users globally for a number of geographical errors, missing information and because it lacks features that made Google Maps so popular, including public transit directions, comprehensive traffic data or street view pictures.Īpple Maps has replaced Google Maps, which is no longer available on iOS 6. A member of the media uses the map function of iPhone 5 after its introduction during Apple Inc.'s iPhone media event in San Francisco, California September 12, 2012.

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