{"id":7883,"date":"2021-12-01T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/playing-with-google-maps-and-apple-maps\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:15:44","slug":"playing-with-google-maps-and-apple-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/playing-with-google-maps-and-apple-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing With Google Maps And Apple Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>A few days ago I was driving from Switzerland to Spain via France when Google Maps told me to get off the motorway and drive on normal roads. When it made this mistake I switched to Apple maps, and was not led astray again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Maps leading me astray was a surprise. Google Maps and Waze are the same, and yet Google Maps behaved differently. I don\u2019t understand why it led me astray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On short trips I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to trust Waze, google maps, TomTom and Apple maps. On long distances Waze and TomTom have been good. It is just Google Maps that I question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I looked at the price of Citro\u00ebn onboard maps the cost is 99chf per region and 205chf for Europe. I didn\u2019t expect it to be so high. TomTom go is 12 chf per year. I don\u2019t understand how onboard map software can be priced so differently. I see the value in it being on the onboard system but with mobile phones and CarPlay etc we are justified in going for the better priced option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years navigating when driving has become really easy. I now find that I never get lost. You hardly need to study a map. Set the destination and the gps does the rest. I know the route I drove well but I still like a gps as a backup, and as a way of keeping track of progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple maps has resolved the teething problems that people discussed. Now it is a good driving option, and it adjusts the display to day or not, making it less of a distraction when driving before sunrise or after sunset. I would use it again, on the way back later in the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its errors in navigation google maps might have lost me as a user. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>A few days ago I was driving from Switzerland to Spain via France when Google Maps told me to get off the motorway and drive on normal roads. When it made this mistake I switched to Apple maps, and was not led astray again. Google Maps leading me astray was a surprise. 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