Apple maps on Raspberry Pi?

snipped-for-privacy@www.zefox.net wrote on 03.22.2024, 02:08 h:

Same here on an Apple.

Seems like Apple Maps is not like Google Maps or Open Street Map an accessible map system via browser but via own programm. I can use the onboard application to view something but not Firefox e.g.

B. Alabay

I wonder how accurate they are - ISTR a few years ago they revamped them, and missed out quite a few significant UK cities

I'm in the USA, so YMMV

Ran across a page that suggested doing a duckduckgo.com search for a business in the region of interest. Apparently duckduckgo.com has a link to apple maps that works. One can then peruse the neighborhood, get directions and bring up satellite images. Tried it, it works.

As to accuracy, apple maps seems to beat google maps, at least in one very narrow way:

Using google maps to plan a bike route resulted in a path through unpaved private land and even ploughed fields. Using apple maps the route was realistic, sticking to public way that was paved.

I'm really surprised how idiotic google maps turned out to be. Missing a recent change is understandable, but the ploughed field had been there for a very long time.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska

They are 100% accurate, any errors come from the user holding the device wrong.

Do they not contain mapmaker's copyright traps ? I'd expect that on everything except open street map.

Sorry Steve, I was parodying the late Jesus Jobs and his iPhone antenna design screw up.

The original Apple Maps replaced Google Maps on Apple devices and it was dire. As MacRumours said "At launch, Apple Maps was heavily criticized for inaccuracies and errors, leading Tim Cook to apologize and promise to improve the service." That was in 2012.

Does anyone really think they have not been heavily improved in the last

Last time I used Apple Maps as a splat nav I found it to be sufficiently accurate for the wbo and to provide better turn-by-turn than google, identifying turns by features - roundabout, T-junction, lights .. - where google just gives distances.

Good old Apple. If there's an established way of doing something (a map that can be displayed in any browser on any OS) they will do it a different way and lock people in to having to install an app, even if it is accessed via a web site.