Originally Posted by
wco81
For instance, if you go to Siracusa, to the island, you want to park in the garage right after you cross the bridge.
If you drive into the neighborhoods there, you could be subject to ZTL (cameras taking pics of unauthorized cars in restricted zones).
So a good GPS would direct you to reach the garage, which involves a U-turn IIRC.
Same issues with parking in Taormina.
These are perks I did not need.
My simple expectations were to get from Point A to Point B without fail and to get re-routed accurately in case I made an error and missed a turn. Prerequisite being not to eat up my sparse ATT data plan.
What I found in testing Apple maps against Google maps and Waze is that these POI's add a ton of data strain which is Enemy #1 when using an iPhone as a GPS abroad. Apple maps rocks, in part, due to its lack of having every restaurant and obscure market in its database. A huge win for Apple maps in remote Italy is it's rendering speed; so many compound turns here, so many traffic circles and quick-switch exits, Google and Waze lag is a huge detriment.
BJ