Automobile caught after following GPS maps in Edinburgh (Supply: “Kiddy” on Twitter/X
Drivers in Scotland maintain crashing as a result of Apple Maps has not been up to date correctly. This is how to verify a map change will get finished.
Apple Maps is not the mess it was when it launched 12 years in the past, and it isn’t the mapping service being sued as a result of its instructions led to a fatality. But it surely’s nonetheless a worldwide system and there are going to be locations the place Apple Maps hasn’t been up to date lately sufficient.
There may be such a case proper now in Edinburgh, the place in response to Fortune, the native council blocked off a street. Known as Greenside Lane, the slender and sloping street has been was a pedestrian-only space, and has had steps added to it.
Nobody instructed Apple or Google although, so for at the very least weeks, the 2 mapping companies continued to direct drivers down Greenside Lane.
Locals have been posting photographs of vehicles and vans turning into caught on the steps, whereas drivers have been expressing annoyed embarrassment.
“I used to be simply following the sat-nav [GPS directions],” one instructed BBC Scotland. “I all the time bear in mind I used to come back down this fashion. I adopted it and simply acquired caught.”
“I had no concept there was a step there, I used to come back down this fashion,” the driving force continued. “I’m a bit embarrassed about it.”
Apple Maps now exhibits Greenside Lane as closed however (inset) Look Round nonetheless exhibits the street open
The change to Greenside Lane was made in October 2023, following plans specified by 2021. Within the minutes of a council assembly on February 1, 2024, it’s famous that Google had up to date its maps after being written to.
In the identical minutes, the council members had been reported to have written to Apple as effectively, and had been ready for a response. It isn’t identified whether or not Apple replied to the council however at time of writing, Greenside Lane has been up to date on Apple Maps.
With Apple Maps, the element that Greenside Lane is closed doesn’t show till a route is deliberate round it, although. Apple’s Look Round function nonetheless exhibits the street as open.
The right way to report a street change to Apple Maps
Curiously, Apple says that whereas customers can report a everlasting change like this via Apple Maps, they’ve to take action on a Mac. Apple Maps on iPhone can be utilized to report short-term points, corresponding to site visitors or roadworks, however not lasting infrastructure adjustments.
The Mac may be Apple Silicon Macs or Intel — although if it is an Intel one it will need to have the Apple T2 Safety Chip — or any Mac with a Contact Bar. Then you definitely:
- Launch Maps on the Mac
- Select the Maps menu
- Choose Report an Difficulty…
- Within the pane that seems, click on the New Doc icon subsequent to “Stories”
- From the pop-down menu, sometimes the most suitable choice is to decide on Report Place Difficulty
Apple doesn’t give an estimate of how lengthy it’ll take for a change to be up to date on the map. There will not be an replace to the Look Round function till the subsequent time Apple Maps vehicles go round Edinburgh, although.
In addition to correcting everlasting street closures, or quick time period site visitors delays, now you can additionally replace enterprise particulars. Assuming it is your personal enterprise, you may inform Apple Maps of any adjustments to do with, say, opening occasions.
