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>So you’re stuck with some shotty local mapping systems that are just bad.

What made you think of them as bad? Could you be more specific? I use them almost daily and I find them very good.

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I was there few months ago and I found them to be quite good too, both in coverage (shops, bus/metro networks) and accuracy. Obviously, not the apps I'm used to so & the language but otherwise, it was okay.

ZephyrBlu|4 months ago

They lack a lot of polish. Functionally they're mostly usable, but some interactions are janky and I found the search to be super hit or miss.

luispauloml|4 months ago

> I found the search to be super hit or miss.

I heard similar complaints from friends that came to visit. But they were using the English version of the apps, which, when I tested, were indeed harder to use, but never a miss for me when I helped them. OTOH, I always find my destinations within the first three options when I search in Korean. So maybe it's subpar internationlization.

> They lack a lot of polish. [...] some interactions are janky

I see. I guess I wouldn't know. It's not janky for me, and I think that I am so used to it that when I need to use Google Maps, or any other, I feel a bit frustrated by the unfamiliar interface that I start wishing I could be using Kakao or Naver Maps instead.