If I choose to drive on anything except the freeway, I get told the road is closed, drive it anyway (the road is, after all, not closed) and spend the entire journey with a mapless screen. Great 4G+ reception the whole way. Happens all over NSW. Weird.
Don’t use Apple Maps. Use Google Maps. It gets it right far more often. I still haven’t forgiven Apple for sending me on a Sydney motorway toll road loop. I know Apple Maps looks better, but that’s useless if the directions aren’t reliable.
Google Maps, not shown, had exactly the same problem. It repeatedly told me to turn around and tried to direct me onto a freeway (out of my way, but theoretically a possible route, I guess) and then it told me the road was closed, then got lost and decided we were nowhere. We still had coverage, and the downloaded map remained, but we weren’t on it.
Google maps does not know Newcastle, incidentally. It has repeatedly sent me on circular loops around my destination in Newie, and insists the tip has an entrance that doesn’t exist, among many other inconvenient wild goose chases. It’s fun to use, but gets massively unreliable outside Sydney. I cannot trust it, so I have both and check both when starting out.
Hmm have you tried moving to an area that isnt a grey, flat void?
Hey, don’t discount the lovely view provided by Repeating Grid!
download maps for offline use with osmand
Isn’t that a standard feature of Crapple CarPlay?
Edit: oh no, I’ve upset the fanboys, praise be to expensive inferior technology!
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I’ve found apple maps to be consistently shit, usually very outdated, and just not get much right ever anytime somebody I’ve been with has insisted on using it. Maybe if you exclusively live in a well populated city and never go to the countryside, it could be okay, but as soon as you go even slightly out of the major metro areas it starts to breakdown
Different people will have different experiences in different locations.
In some locations Apple Maps is better, sometimes Google Maps is better, sometimes you have to resort to using Factory GPS (which is always terrible) and sometimes (Shock! Horror!) you have to navigate using road signs, your eyes and local knowledge.
That said, sometimes I wonder if an OSM navigation system would be much better. At least both Google and Apple allow you to provide feedback when something is wrong with their maps.
In newcastle I have generally found Google Maps innaccurate at best, adding massive legs to short trips at worst. Apple maps hasn’t sent me on doglegs yet in Newie.
Rurally, they’re both bad, but useable. But over the last year they have both got a lot worse.
I miss my NSW UBD paper book, frankly.
Try mapsme
I guess they are not great anymore. After they been sold their app is trying to put its fingers to many places in my phone it should not.
🤷♂️it works
