Apple Maps still dangerously stupid after a year

Sadistic-Savior · Sep 26, 2013

Seriously Apple...it's been a year. And these people told you about the problem. Get your sh*t together.

Apple Maps flaw results in drivers crossing airport runway

An Alaskan airport has closed an aircraft access route because of a flaw with Apple's Maps app.

Fairbanks International Airport told a local newspaper that in the past three weeks two motorists had driven along the taxiway and across one of its runways.

Apple's app had directed users along the taxiway but did not specifically tell them to drive onto the runway.

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The airport said it had first complained to the phone-maker three weeks ago via the local attorney general's office.

"We asked them to disable the map for Fairbanks until they could correct it, thinking it would be better to have nothing show up than to take the chance that one more person would do this," Melissa Osborn, chief of operations at the airport, told the Alaska Dispatch newspaper.

Google Maps:

Apple Maps:

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I guess in Apple's defense, their route is definitely more direct and faster.

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