<story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>w1ntermute</author><text>This is especially galling for the Japanese. Not only are they valuable customers due to their frequent cell phone purchases and rabid desire for brand-name products (including Apple, of course), but a quarter of the Japanese population (and the main target market) lives in Tokyo, where people are almost entirely dependent on public transit to get around. With iOS 6, there are no built in directions!&lt;p&gt;Of course, Apple apologists will jump to say that you can just get a 3rd party app, but that simply doesn&apos;t cut it. Google Maps provided a door-to-door solution for directions, which makes a big difference when you don&apos;t know what the closest train station to an address is. Moreover, the ability to see the total door-to-door time and compare it to the cost of the trip made it easy to select the optimal route (based on a combination of price and time).&lt;p&gt;And here are some of the amusing mistakes in the database[0]:&lt;p&gt;* &quot;McDonalds&quot; and &quot;Pachinko Gundam&quot; train stations&lt;p&gt;* A station not attached to any railway lines&lt;p&gt;* No Osaka station (this is a really big station)&lt;p&gt;* Place names in Chinese and Korean&lt;p&gt;* Haneda Airport (busiest airport in Japan) is mislabeled as  「大王製紙」 ― &quot;Great King Paper Manufacturer&quot; (this one has gotten a lot of laughs)&lt;p&gt;* Narita Airport (2nd busiest airport) completely missing&lt;p&gt;For those who can read Japanese, there&apos;s a good 2chan thread archive[1] of Japanese netizens taking the piss out of Apple Maps.&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/09/ios-6-maps-fail-in-japan.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.japanmobiletech.com/2012/09/ios-6-maps-fail-in-ja...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gahalog.2chblog.jp/archives/52132765.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gahalog.2chblog.jp/archives/52132765.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Botches China and Japan Maps in iOS 6</title><url>http://www.techinasia.com/apple-ios-6-maps-china-japan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>To be fair, Google Maps in China isn&apos;t great either. See &quot;Map View&quot; vs &quot;Satellite View&quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&amp;#38;spn=0.001513,0.00284&amp;#38;t=m&amp;#38;z=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.637323,114.030954&amp;#38;spn=0.0...&lt;/a&gt;. It&apos;s off by a few hundred meters (the corresponding satellite view for the previous map view is actually here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&amp;#38;spn=0.003025,0.005681&amp;#38;t=h&amp;#38;z=18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.640363,114.025936&amp;#38;spn=0.0...&lt;/a&gt;). I assume Google is aware of this issue since they don&apos;t overlay map data over their satellite view like they do almost everywhere else around the world. The fact that they can&apos;t drive their Street View cars in China doesn&apos;t help either.</text></comment>