[reggplant]

Before, I would never consider moving to Android after having used the iPhone since it came out and invested a reasonable amount of money in iOS Apps. Now, I'm considering a switch as for me, the maps app was one of the most useful things on the phone for finding my way once I had become lost, out on my bike.

Apple really has done a bad job on the maps for my area just north of London in the UK. Towns are mislabelled, villages will have their label shown while zoomed out, while larger towns won't be labeled at all on any zoom level.

Google may do well to hold out on making their maps accessible iOS6 to try and bring current previous generation iPhone users over to their operating system and its devices.

[qq66]

I have an iPhone 4S and I'm definitely not upgrading the OS.

[batista]

I am afraid the Maps for small countries like mine will be even worse.

A quick solution for you might be to use a third party GPS app/maps. Usually they are better than Google Maps (you do miss the integration with the other iOS apps though).

I wonder how much of the low quality is due to Apple (bugs of the new Maps app, which can be easily fixable) and how much is due to Open Street Map data being subpar (which needs much more time and work to fix)?