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Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When searching for a business, like your hotel which is part of a very large hotel chain, Google will show the one saved in your list as the first search result when you start typing. Apple Maps will show you the search results in the same order you’d see them otherwise, but it will write “in your guide” under the hotel that could be further down the list.<\/p>\n

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Apple Maps is also bad if you move the map to an area and want to search within that area. It’ll snap back to where you are and search that area first.<\/p>\n

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If I had upgraded from 14.4.0 to 14.4.1 while I was traveling I would need to catch this error with enough time to re-download my offline maps, especially the offline maps for the city I was in.<\/p>\n

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Apple Maps is not very good for English-speaking tourists in Japan. Apple Maps Japanese data is from its partnerships with local Japanese companies. That’s great for locals, but that means things like restaurant reviews are in Japanese. Again, this is helpful if you speak Japanese, and very relevant to the residents of Japan, but far less accessible to me, an English-speaking traveler.<\/p>\n

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The crowds in some of these places in Japan are no joke. Google Maps has had the ability to show a little bar graph for every location for how busy a place is throughout the day, in addition to how busy it currently<\/em> is. It’s had this feature since 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n