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by m_st 3218 days ago
Switzerland here. Apple Maps is still pretty bad compared to Google Maps.

While Apple Maps is indeed usable, Google Maps is just so much better. Recently I searched for a train station like "Bahnhof Flamatt" and Apple Maps gave me something in the US. Another day I searched something in Bern and Apple Maps gave me results for New Bern in the US. On another day I suddenly got black and white (!) maps in Apple Maps, then I got blurry maps. All of areas that were just fine before.

Edit: typos

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I occasionally use Apple Maps while driving because of the nice integration. But then you can't see the current song anymore! Is anyone at Apple using this??? I can't believe they didn't consider this and use a small portion of the screen to show the current song and allow prev/next/play|pause.
Apple Maps also has this nice button to direct you to the nearest gas station. Unfortunately it doesn't know all gas stations so in Switzerland you'll get results that are too far away, when the next station would be just nearby.