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What happened at Apple? Apple Maps is actually quite nice to use now. I've been using it for the last week and is easier to read than Waze or Google Maps and works pretty OK. It finally has a speed limit indicator like Waze and has lane directions like Google. They solved the "don't turn here" problem by "stay in lane(s)" indications which is pretty smart. Plus I love having an Oz accented announcer. One remaining problem with Google and Apple, but not Waze as they don't have lane indicators, is that they show the lane count for the upcoming junction but not for the configuration you are currently on. Around NY and NJ these two are constantly different so you still end up hoping back and forth like a happy Bundo.
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MrMoo posted:What happened at Apple? Apple Maps is actually quite nice to use now. I've been using it for the last week and is easier to read than Waze or Google Maps and works pretty OK. It finally has a speed limit indicator like Waze and has lane directions like Google. They solved the "don't turn here" problem by "stay in lane(s)" indications which is pretty smart. Plus I love having an Oz accented announcer. Apple maps’ biggest problem has always been lack of data. google has had a very long head start on collecting this data whereas Apple had to rely on map providers while it builds its database. as more data fills in it keeps getting better and better, although google does still have a significant lead. the UI was always better than anyone else.
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Apple maps is fine except the UI is way too slow I'll blow by a turn going an incredible 20 miles per hour because the map is doing some annoyingly slow transition that makes it look like the turn is another 1/4 mile ahead or I'll take a turn and it'll spend 10s slowly reorienting just show the goddamn route jony
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MrMoo posted:What happened at Apple? Apple Maps is actually quite nice to use now. I've been using it for the last week and is easier to read than Waze or Google Maps and works pretty OK. It finally has a speed limit indicator like Waze and has lane directions like Google. They solved the "don't turn here" problem by "stay in lane(s)" indications which is pretty smart. Plus I love having an Oz accented announcer. they hired yosposter to work on maps
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:Apple maps is fine except the UI is way too slow google does this too. there’s one junction I use occasionally where there are two turns in quick succession, and at the last moment where I have to commit to the second one google is still slowly drawling “in 50 feet”
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Mar 21, 2018 15:46
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Soricidus posted:google does this too. there’s one junction I use occasionally where there are two turns in quick succession, and at the last moment where I have to commit to the second one google is still slowly drawling “in 50 feet” sometimes it does this correctly. ie "turn right, then immediately turn right" or whatever
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I would unironically work at Apple or Google if I could work in a team that used all this vaunted machine learning capability to design a turn-by-turn assistant that was polite and didn’t just blurt out the next direction st the precise microsecond it was due regardless of who was talking.
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yeah, the issue with maps isnt the interface for the most part.
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it's definitely true that apple maps looks better than google maps, but that doesn't matter when it consistently gives wrong/dangerous directions however, this is easily solved by actually reading the map and knowing where you're going before you leave like a sensible person
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is there a way to edit my iphone/icloud contact list from a windows pc? i want to port a bunch from my old phone but its full of trash so i dont want to use any automated porting. its not too much to do everything on phone either, but i'd be done like 10 times faster if i could type all the emails and non-english names on computer
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cinci zoo sniper posted:is there a way to edit my iphone/icloud contact list from a windows pc? i want to port a bunch from my old phone but its full of trash so i dont want to use any automated porting. its not too much to do everything on phone either, but i'd be done like 10 times faster if i could type all the emails and non-english names on computer https://www.icloud.com/#contacts
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Stymie posted:however, this is easily solved by actually reading the map and knowing where you're going before you leave like a sensible person i am constantly amazed that this seemingly simple skill eludes people. especially because automated routing is absolutely heinous in a lot of scenarios so having some idea where you're going and how to get there neatly sidesteps the problem of some idiot weighting algo deciding to send you through hell's half-acre maybe it's growing up walking and taking pubtrans, imo but you generally want to have some idea of how to get where you're going, before you leave.
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infernal machines posted:i am constantly amazed that this seemingly simple skill eludes people. especially because automated routing is absolutely heinous in a lot of scenarios so having some idea where you're going and how to get there neatly sidesteps the problem of some idiot weighting algo deciding to send you through hell's half-acre a good friend's boyfriend was once giving me a ride to a party and needed to pick me up from the liquor store. this was in a warehouse district basically next to his neighborhood, less than half a mile away but on the other side of a pretty gnarly freeway intersection. for sf posters, this was the bevmo on bayshore, coming from like portrero and 24th. so i tell him, look, i know these roads, it's annoying to get here by car, i'm going to walk across the street so you can just come through the intersection and pick me up at like a bus stop instead of trying to make a bunch of terrible turns to get into this exact parking lot, here's exactly what you should do. and he just absolutely cannot handle it, because he has no intention of just following these super-simple directions, he needs a street address that he can put into his gps. so i say fine, i'll just wait in the parking lot, and of course he fucks up even following the gps and he misses his turn and tries to make the next one except that's no good because sure it goes back to the main street but you can't turn left there and he ends up orbiting around these warehouses for like five minutes trying to figure out how to get through to where i am. eventually he shows up and he's obviously super pissed off but trying to make a good show of it and my friend is just sitting there rigid and embarrassed, and we try our best to leave him alone for the rest of the trip
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lol that situation is painfully relatable. spatial knowledge and reasoning is important and built upon, so I sorta get that people just can’t think for themselves for a minute, but not so much actively refusing to listen to simple instructions. they must have a really simple mental map of the city, with little more than a series of common routes imprinted on their minds(a nub compared to a cabbie). I’d wager the totally gps dependent don’t relate memory and space very well
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i only use gps when i'm in an unfamiliar place for the first time and not willing to get a bit lost. otherwise i keep that poo poo off so my mental map of the area improves
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when i was working with universal studios, one of the execs complained at length about folks just jamming UNIVERSAL into gps and ending up at their backlot security entrance, gumming up the line and delaying him from getting to work then 5 minutes later extolling the virtues of waze, "it takes me thru neighborhoods! i avoid traffic magically by just doing exactly what it says and never second guessing it!"
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one thing not a single navigation app has ever gotten right is roundabouts with multiple exits.
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Wild EEPROM posted:one thing not a single navigation app has ever gotten right is roundabouts with multiple exits. a roundabout without multiple exits is a u turn
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Apple maps is good at telling me which exit on the many traffic circles in dc to take
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Wild EEPROM posted:one thing not a single navigation app has ever gotten right is roundabouts with multiple exits. google maps does it just fine 
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i hate how apple nav tells me to "take second exit on roundabout" when what it means is to go straight thrpugh
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echinopsis posted:i hate how apple nav tells me to "take second exit on roundabout" when what it means is to go straight thrpugh they can't say go straight as it'd be five minutes before some guy is phoning his lawyer from his car, precariously balanced on top of an ornament in the middle of the central island of a roundabout
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echinopsis posted:i hate how apple nav tells me to "take second exit on roundabout" when what it means is to go straight thrpugh sometimes roundabouts have odd number of exits
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echinopsis posted:i hate how apple nav tells me to "take second exit on roundabout" when what it means is to go straight thrpugh ur dumb
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rjmccall posted:a good friend's boyfriend was once giving me a ride to a party and needed to pick me up from the liquor store. this was in a warehouse district basically next to his neighborhood, less than half a mile away but on the other side of a pretty gnarly freeway intersection. for sf posters, this was the bevmo on bayshore, coming from like portrero and 24th. so i tell him, look, i know these roads, it's annoying to get here by car, i'm going to walk across the street so you can just come through the intersection and pick me up at like a bus stop instead of trying to make a bunch of terrible turns to get into this exact parking lot, here's exactly what you should do. and he just absolutely cannot handle it, because he has no intention of just following these super-simple directions, he needs a street address that he can put into his gps. so i say fine, i'll just wait in the parking lot, and of course he fucks up even following the gps and he misses his turn and tries to make the next one except that's no good because sure it goes back to the main street but you can't turn left there and he ends up orbiting around these warehouses for like five minutes trying to figure out how to get through to where i am. eventually he shows up and he's obviously super pissed off but trying to make a good show of it and my friend is just sitting there rigid and embarrassed, and we try our best to leave him alone for the rest of the trip this is more because people dont know how to loving lay out a city and streets than anything else
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what i really want is a gps app that shuts the gently caress up and only gives me directions when i ask for them, because i really don't need step by step instructions for how to turn into my own driveway. surely siri or w/e could do that? like it knows where i'm going and i can just ask "is this my exit" if i'm not sure
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Soricidus posted:what i really want is a gps app that shuts the gently caress up and only gives me directions when i ask for them, because i really don't need step by step instructions for how to turn into my own driveway. surely siri or w/e could do that? like it knows where i'm going and i can just ask "is this my exit" if i'm not sure just turn off the voice and glance at the screen to see the street/exit name and turn direction
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drive with your eyes closed and let jesus take the wheel
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Soricidus posted:what i really want is a gps app that shuts the gently caress up and only gives me directions when i ask for them, because i really don't need step by step instructions for how to turn into my own driveway. surely siri or w/e could do that? like it knows where i'm going and i can just ask "is this my exit" if i'm not sure
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if you don't want to listen to music at the maximum possible volume, just turn it off
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yippee cahier posted:if you don't want to listen to music at the maximum possible volume, just turn it off just turn on eu volume mode, its good
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NEED MORE MILK posted:this is more because people dont know how to loving lay out a city and streets than anything else if only every city were on a featureless infinite plain so that the perfection of the grid system would never need to be compromised :trainwithasingletear:
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Endless Mike posted:just turn it off when you've reached a familiar part of your drive? like, why are you using a gps to get home at all? Traffic-based routing? I have a ~15 minute commute by any of 3 main routes (two of them are highways, the other gets blocked by freight trains) that will each individually get completely jammed while the others are fine. When I don't use GPS to pick which, I regret it more often than not.
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NEED MORE MILK posted:this is more because people dont know how to loving lay out a city and streets than anything else the street grid in that area predates the freeway by a century
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e: aw goddamned emptyquote button
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I turn off audio queues on all satnavs and use Waze.
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Pissflaps posted:I turn off audio queues on all satnavs and use Waze.
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Pissflaps posted:I turn off audio queues on all satnavs and use Waze. in America they’re audio lines
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My boyfriend also did that
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