It ’s been official for a while now : iOS 6 Maps suck . Everyone from Tim Cook to my mother experience it , but now it ’s getting scary . Victoria Police are advising multitude not to practice iOS 6 Maps due to safe concerns . What are those safety concerns ? Oh nothing , really , just masses stranded late inside a remote national green .
The Murray Sunset National Park is located around 70 kilometer from the bustling regional town of Mildura in Victoria , and any reasonable mapping software could surely differentiate that the two are vastly dissimilar . Not Apple Maps .
In the last few weeks , Mildura Police have been responding to saving calls from motorists who have become lost in the home park after being ship there by Apple Maps . The software system actually opine Mildura is located in the middle of the green itself .
There ’s no water supply in the national commons and temperature can hand almost 50 point Celsius in the summer sun , police say , making this a very serious issue .
Some of the motorists turn up by police have been run aground for up to 24 minute without food or water system and have walked long distance through dangerous terrain to get phone receipt .
Police have done their own tests and found that Apple Maps is in fact routing motorist into the heart of nowhere , and are telling citizenry to ditch their iPhones until Apple fixes it . This is speculative than the metre Apple sent multitude seeking a infirmary to some stranger ’s house . [ Victoria Police ]
republish from our first cousin atGizmodo Australia . Check it out for all of your other - side - of - the - equator tech newsworthiness .
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