![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Maptastrophe
Sep. 28th, 2012 09:09 amI'm a real map freak - as a kid, I would sit for hours looking at various maps, especially topo and hydrographic maps.
The Apple map thing was pretty exciting at first, since seems that the rendering engine is a lot more sophisticated than what Google is using, and I love the new typography and how it smoothly transitions from one scale to another. The font they use takes me right back to elementary school, back in the days when Canada was pink - cuz we're all socialists, dontcha know - and Burma, Ceylon, and Zaire were still known by their proper colonial names.
But the errors! Holy smokes. First one I found was in trying to get to the Pittsburgh airport - fortunately Scotty recognized that it was routing us into the cargo portal, which is several miles from the passenger area. That must be real interesting, having thousands of people showing up there unawares.
If you type in "Dulles Airport", doesn't even know where it is. I mean, this is one of the most important airports in the country. WTF?
I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled this? It's like he was the only person there with any common sense. It will be interesting to see if they ever recover from this blunder, it sure is a big one. I have no idea how you go about correcting a map like that, the fixes must number in the hundreds of thousands. Glad it's not my project, I'd be having a nervous breakdown right about now.
The Apple map thing was pretty exciting at first, since seems that the rendering engine is a lot more sophisticated than what Google is using, and I love the new typography and how it smoothly transitions from one scale to another. The font they use takes me right back to elementary school, back in the days when Canada was pink - cuz we're all socialists, dontcha know - and Burma, Ceylon, and Zaire were still known by their proper colonial names.
But the errors! Holy smokes. First one I found was in trying to get to the Pittsburgh airport - fortunately Scotty recognized that it was routing us into the cargo portal, which is several miles from the passenger area. That must be real interesting, having thousands of people showing up there unawares.
If you type in "Dulles Airport", doesn't even know where it is. I mean, this is one of the most important airports in the country. WTF?
I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled this? It's like he was the only person there with any common sense. It will be interesting to see if they ever recover from this blunder, it sure is a big one. I have no idea how you go about correcting a map like that, the fixes must number in the hundreds of thousands. Glad it's not my project, I'd be having a nervous breakdown right about now.
