{"id":6703,"date":"2012-12-17T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:19:02","slug":"apple-maps-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/apple-maps-rendering\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps Rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/12\/apple-gets-thrown-in-the-briar-patch\/#comment-28035\">James<\/a> at Dr. Drang&rsquo;s site:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/12\/apple-gets-thrown-in-the-briar-patch\/#comment-28035\"><p>To be honest, even if Apple Maps used the same data as Google&rsquo;s, I wouldn&rsquo;t use it right now.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>How is showing almost all road sizes in the same colour (white) a good idea? Why is peppering the map with big circular points of interest that give a local sandwich shop the same visual priority as a tube station a good idea?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find that Apple Maps alternately fills the screen with lots of not very important information and (in more rural areas) shows barely anything, omitting important details until I zoom in so far that I can no longer see the big picture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James at Dr. Drang&rsquo;s site: To be honest, even if Apple Maps used the same data as Google&rsquo;s, I wouldn&rsquo;t use it right now. [&#8230;] How is showing almost all road sizes in the same colour (white) a good idea? Why is peppering the map with big circular points of interest that give a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,31,26,106],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-maps"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6704,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/6704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}