Who Benefits From iOS 6’s Crappy Maps?

Over the weekend I was trying to navigate to the church of my grandmothers funeral, because I wanted to make sure I left in time so I wasn't late. Apple's new Maps kept navigating me to a church of the same name in a town that was about 120 miles away from our destination.

Even when I specifically entered in the city name, it still went to the wrong city.

The only way I could see the traffic conditions in the end was to type in the name of the mall that was within a few hundred feet of the church, so I knew it'd be almost just as accurate.

In my case, I was lucky because I was actually married in that church so I knew exactly where it was, but what if this happened to someone else? What if someone is trying to get directions, it gives them directions to the wrong location and that person is none-the-wiser?

Is there a service level agreement for using the Maps app on your iPhone? Should there be?

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.