I've pretty much given up on search on iOS6. It seems more often than not entering an address like "123 Spruce" will take me to some landmark/town relating to the street name, a few states away.
I can count the number of times the search actually picked up on the fact that I entered an address on a single hand. Apple, this is me trying to make things as easy for your craptastic search as possible. I've taken the trouble to type the number and the street name. If you can't take it from there, what the hell.
I've also had the map place things in hilariously wrong places. These are shops with addresses (addresses that are correct on the detail pane!) that would somehow end up a block away or on the wrong side of the street. Worse yet, I've been redirect to a few no-longer-existent Starbucks by now.
This is in Manhattan too, far from an obscure location.
This is one of Google Maps' hugely understated strengths. I've never found another service that can take a partial address and understand what you mean as well as it does. It was one of my motivations to switch back to Android from Windows Phone.
I've had fantastic luck getting hilarious results from google. For a while, searching for "city hall" with the Philadelphia City Hall clearly visible on the map resulted in being transported to a Chicago Police Station. I had another search that would send me to Alaska.
I can count the number of times the search actually picked up on the fact that I entered an address on a single hand. Apple, this is me trying to make things as easy for your craptastic search as possible. I've taken the trouble to type the number and the street name. If you can't take it from there, what the hell.
I've also had the map place things in hilariously wrong places. These are shops with addresses (addresses that are correct on the detail pane!) that would somehow end up a block away or on the wrong side of the street. Worse yet, I've been redirect to a few no-longer-existent Starbucks by now.
This is in Manhattan too, far from an obscure location.