Submitted 1 year ago by Thisfox@sopuli.xyz to australia@aussie.zone
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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.
Great song
Always brings me back to Yahoo Serious’s movies. I think it was Young Einstein that had that song in the intro.
I know you stated you have a great connection, but signal strength isn’t necessarily the best measure of bandwidth/latency on the network.
What I’d do to rule out connectivity is download offline maps; it’s a feature now built in to Apple Maps.
The maps were downloaded, I could read them and did, but moving or parked, the gps insisted I was at best “on a road that is closed”, and at worst tried to find me in the world. Not shown: Same problem with google maps, which also insisted that we weren’t on any road.
That’s really strange. It’s hard to pinpoint the behavior. I almost wonder if it’s the triangulation of cell towers (assisted GPS) at this point. I wonder what would happen if you shut off cellular entirely and just went full GPS (though it takes something like seven minutes to acquire coordinates that way).
Too many variables to tell.
The problem is that you’re listening to icehouse, a cheesy 80s band which tends to stuff up CarPlay and brick head units. Now drop that tucker mate, grab ya Shiela and get out beyond the black stump with some classic Queen or Aerosmith.
Sorry mate but “Great Southern Land” is one of our national anthems
I’ve seen that happen when a free was re-routed to the other side of a hill or a windy section of road was replaced by a straight line cutting through the hills… sometimes the mapping companies don’t update as quick as they should.
Never seen it on an established road that hasn’t changed recently though.
download maps for offline use with osmand
Try mapsme
If you were interested in trying another app, I love Waze and find its directions and navigation far superior to Google Maps (even though it’s owned by Google, go figure).
If you don’t mind trying a map app based on OSM, try Magic Earth. It has really good navigation for driving and you can even download large maps offline for a fraction of the storage it would take using Google or Apple.
Google bought Waze just to keep their t out of anyone else’s hands. They’ve mostly ignored it after that.
They have integrated some of the crowd reporting stuff over to Maps. But that’s it.
Does it happen if you just use maps on the iPhone as normal instead of though car play? What iPhone are you using?
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Isn’t that a standard feature of Crapple CarPlay?
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
No, not for years. Except that it seems to be decaying over the last few months.
Not shown is the same argument I was having with Google Maps. Both insisted the road either wasn’t there, or was closed, which hasn’t been the case for the last forty years that I have used it.
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
This might be a very rare case if you’ve had the issue with different providers.
I 4x4 a lot, in regional NSW, and find that my pre-loaded Google maps show almost every single trail were on vs my friends with Apple or factory maps.
Either way, my comment was just tongue in cheek, do you remember to stories of Apple Map directing people into the ocean? 🤣
railsdev@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is such a schoolyard level comment. You’re going based off original Apple Maps which indeed did suck. But guess what? So did Google Maps.
It’s so dumb to compare modern Google Maps with OG Apple Maps. If you took a moment to think about what you’ve commented maybe you could attribute the downvotes to something other than “the fAnBoyS 🥴.”
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Settle down hero; my comment was a light hearted jab.
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Have you ever used it?
bestusername@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m on Android Auto, I live in regional NSW, I travel a lot and I regularly 4x4 in zero reception areas.
I’ve never had this issue, Google lets you know you’re going into bad/shitty reception areas and asks you if you want to pre-load maps. Only needs GPS when with mobile data is zero.
I always find my Google Maps to be better than my fellow 4x4ers CarPlay maps.