iOS6 - Socoder

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> iOS6
Thu, 20 Sep 2012, 03:38
Jayenkai	Oh dear, that didn't go very well, did it? I've lost StreetView, and my iPad no longer has a YouTube app. Still, I can now hold down my iPad's home button, yell nonsense at it, and have it rant back at me. So... There's that! I hadn't previously used the iPad's dictate button, assuming it'd be quite shit, but having been impressed with how well Sirii is coping with my voice, I might give it a go. .. Maybe. ... Or then again, I'm probably quicker typing, at this point! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 20 Sep 2012, 04:44
spinal	... downloading now 1/2 hour to go... Just noticed the xcode update, not sure if I wan't to get that, those sorts of updates have a tendency of breaking my coding projects. especially now that i've got the thing down to only 4 minor errors. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Sat, 22 Sep 2012, 11:34
JL235	iMaps is practically unusable.
Sat, 22 Sep 2012, 11:43
Jayenkai	My village (Little Lever) has been renamed. It's now Harwood. It's also regrown its 15-year-ago Lo-Cost supermarket, whilst losing its Tesco store. Luckily, Leapfrog Computers is now on the street behind me, so I can finally get a local computing job -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 22 Sep 2012, 12:09
shroom_monk	Given that the data they got from TomTom, being the data they use for their mapping system, would presumably be accurate, I assume the problems here are caused by Apple's software incorrectly processing the accurate data? In which case, how on earth do you manage to write something that parses data so poorly and not notice until you release the software? Did no-one QA this stuff? -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Sat, 22 Sep 2012, 13:48
JL235	I'm guessing that they had it all built in the US. So mispellings and incorrect data wouldn't stand out. Here is my University on iMaps: That is a picture of the UK's 12th largest university, about 10 minutes outside the centre of the UK's second largest city. Google Maps had pictures for my area in Birmingham long before their mega-update two years ago. iMaps is practically unusable.
Sun, 23 Sep 2012, 04:47
shroom_monk	But if it worked for data set up in a similar way, just for the US, then how could it work so horribly over here? I'd have thought that a well-designed solution would work equally well anywhere? -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Sun, 23 Sep 2012, 05:05
JL235	They will probably be using lots of different data sources. It could also be that some of their sources were just bad. Data doesn't turn 30 years old due to corruption, it would be out of date to begin with.
Sun, 23 Sep 2012, 05:57
shroom_monk	The articles I'd read implied that all the data came from TomTom and was the same stuff they use for their current maps, so I assumed it was all up-to-date. Is that not so? -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!