[zimpenfish]

Apple Maps is fine. The rendering is still slightly worse than Google Maps when it comes to putting relevant information in the viewport (street names, primarily.)

But the search ... good grief, the search still sucks donkey balls through a molecular straw. It seems to lack any sense of your local context and location - which is kinda relevant for maps!

e.g. frequently when I used to search for "charing cross" whilst in London, it would offer "Charing Cross, Glasgow" as the default. (That's been fixed now)

There was another time I was searching for something in, IIRC, Dover, UK whilst in Dover, UK and it offered me something in Maryland, USA. Absolute dogshit.

And it just plain doesn't know about real places - searched for Leigh Library the other week (whilst about 400yds away!) which lives on Civic Square (part of its official quoted address) and the only "Civic Square" it offered was in Motherwell (Scotland!)

[m_st]

Full ACK, the search should be contextual, but I get US results in Switzerland! Or when I search for "Train station", then I expect it to suggest me the closest ones until I continue refining my search. But I get results from other countries or that are very far away. Also "Train station <city>" doesn't always give the same result as "<city> train station".

[_nalply]

Once I searched for a métairie in the French speaking Jura mountains (a métairie is a mountain hut offering food and rest) and got Metairie, LA.

[zimpenfish]

It seems to have a real blind spot about "things" - almost like you have to get the exact rendering of the name they have because there's no semantic labelling.

e.g. "X station" often wouldn't find "X train station" or "X underground station"; same for "X tube" in London (although both of these have improved for me on 11b8.)

[Doctor_Fegg]

100% this. Geocoding is the real weak spot in Apple Maps. (Though it's getting slowly better. Siri successfully navigated me to Brize Norton village the other day, where previously it had refused to associate the name with anything other than the RAF Brize Norton airbase.)

[taneq]

Google Maps is heinous for putting street names on all the little back streets, and leaving them off the big arterial roads that might actually give you a chance of orienting yourself. It's really frustrating.

[justincormack]

Google is pretty bad often too. I have been recommended a closed cafe in the UK when visiting Seattle as the nearest cafe.

[Accacin]

I've noticed the search is crap too. The other day I searched for a restaurant and it found nothing. Asked for directions anyway and it directed me to the right place so it knew where it was!

I use Apple Maps most of the time, although I keep GMaps installed just in case.