There are significant inconsistencies between STO/OC Transpo bus stop names in Apple/Google Maps and those in the display/announcement on board the bus, confusing passengers. Here are some examples. Please make them consistent!
Maps: des Trembles & des Parulines
Real: Perdrix
Maps: des Trembles & des Grives
Real: Tourterelles
Maps: Alexandre-Taché & de la Coopération
Real: UQO
Maps: Aubry
Real: Place du Centre
Maps: ...
Real: ...
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Transit in Apple Maps and Google Maps are both wrong. In reality, after transferring from STO's route 34, OC Transpo's route 85 goes in the opposite direction from the other side of Promenade du Portage, then onto boulevard Alexandre-Taché and finally onto rue Eddy.
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Both Apple Maps and Google Maps sometimes give directions through impassable passages or those marked PRIVATE PROPERTY leading to a dead end.
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Even though "Transit" is specified in DIRECTIONS, Google Maps sometimes shows "Drive" in order to get to a bus stop, making a useless 8-shaped loop.
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Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle sometimes shows non-sensical detours even though there are sidewalks and/or priority lanes.
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Apple Maps's Directions > Transit sometimes shows hyper-sharp U-turns. In reality, however, a bus does not make such U-turns.
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While Google Maps's Directions follows the multi-use pathway, Apple Maps's Directions suggests to take a direct route over a guardrail in Walking or Cycling instead of lengthy pedestrian/cyclist detour in Gatineau, QC, Canada. Yes!!!
In case of Cycling, the cyclist must lift up his/her bicycle and cross the highway ramp with vehicular traffic. For such effort, Google Maps subtracts the distance of 600 m and the travel time of 3 minutes.
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Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle directed me to an absolutely impossible pathway in Gatineau, QC, Canada, not with a broken line but with a solid line. The path is neither paved nor gravelled, and is covered with wild vegetation and fallen trees. Here is extremely steep downhill.
From the other side is extremely steep uphill like rock climbing, and there is even warning sign: "Danger!"
This brave soul was climbing uphill by lifting up his bicycle. Maybe he was influenced by a divine cross nearby.
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Here is another impossible pathway that Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle directed me in Gatineau, QC, Canada, not with a broken line but with a solid line. The path with a steep hill is neither paved nor gravelled, and is covered with wild vegetation and fallen trees.
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Here is another impossible pathway that Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle directed me in Gatineau, QC, Canada. Google Maps shows both official paved pathway and unofficial unpaved pathway.
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Here is another impossible pathway that Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle directed me in Gatineau, QC, Canada. The path has a "No Entry" sign because it is a fire station.
Then, Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle continued to lead me to a no-pedestrian/no-bicycle zone.
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I faithfully followed Apple Maps's Directions > Walk, but the pathway was blocked by a fence in Gatineau, QC, Canada. The gate of the fence was not locked, so I proceeded to the other side.
However, the pathway became impassable by wet ground and fallen trees.
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I faithfully followed Apple Maps's Directions > Walk from my home to Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) in Gatineau, QC, Canada. The pathway goes through a vandalised fence with a sign that says "Surveillance par caméra".
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Neither Google Maps nor Apple Maps takes into account that there is obviously a passage inside Rideau Centre in Ottawa, ON, from Apple Store to the bus stop. Apple Maps shows longer detour than Google Maps's detour.
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Apple Maps's Directions > Walk forces me to pass a private property and a cemetery in Kiruna, Sweden.
Apple Maps's Directions > Walk forces me to a snow bank, then to a private property in Kiruna, Sweden.
Apple Maps's Directions > Walk shows senseless detours in Kiruna, Sweden.
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Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle directed me to go straight in Gatinau, QC, Canada. However, heavy vegetation makes it impossible to pass through.
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Google Maps's Directions > Bicycle finally started to disclose the truth!!!
Use caution - bicycling directions may not always reflect real-world conditions.
