{"id":4192,"date":"2012-12-11T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2012-12-11T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:14:25","slug":"not-so-funny-apple-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Not so funny Apple maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3814\" alt=\"ios6maps\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ios6maps-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ios6maps-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ios6maps.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I admit I, too, <a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3813\">joined the happy chorus<\/a> of Android phone owners ridiculing Apple&#8217;s decision to drop Google Maps in favor of a half-baked homegrown Apple solution in iOS6.<\/p>\n<p>However, those bad maps are no joke. Apparently in Australia, several people found themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1299975--apple-maps-blamed-for-stranding-motorists-in-a-potentially-life-threatening-situation\">in life-threatening situations<\/a> when Apple&#8217;s mapping program guided them to a snake-infested desert instead of a tourist destination.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4192' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I, too, joined the happy chorus of Android phone owners ridiculing Apple&#8217;s decision to drop Google Maps in favor of a half-baked homegrown Apple solution in iOS6. However, those bad maps are no joke. Apparently in Australia, several people found themselves in life-threatening situations when Apple&#8217;s mapping program guided them to a snake-infested <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4192' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-transportation","category-11-id","category-24-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}