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The internet has been abuzz about Apple’s iPhone 5 “mapocalypse<\/a>“. The Verge has new background information: Apple took the decision to ship their own mapping app “over a year before the company’s agreement to use Google Maps expired<\/em>“. Apparently, the people at Apple “felt that the older Google Maps-powered Maps in iOS were<\/em>\u00a0falling behind Android \u2014 particularly since they didn’t have access to turn-by-turn navig<\/em>ation (…).<\/em>” Google on the other hand has been reported to have wished for more branding and inclusion of Latitude.<\/p>\n

Anyway, “mapocalypse” is here and is presumably bound to stay a while, until either Apple fixes its globe or Google has finished their iOS6 mapping app and it’s been given admission to the app store by Apple. While competition is always a good thing, I’m not sure if Apple has indeed the capacity to amend their data on a global scale within a short time range. Combing through and improving the consistency of geodata from heterogeneous sources is a daunting task, after all.\u00a0Google Maps (started 2005) and Google Earth (released under this moniker for the first time in 2005) also\u00a0took years to arrive at a level which most users are happy with\u00a0most of the time.\u00a0The praise at the introduction of the new Apple maps\u00a0is what their progress in quality\u00a0will be measured against:<\/p>\n

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(…) when iOS software VP Scott Forstall introduced the new mapping system in June, he called it “beautiful” and “gorgeous” and stressed that “we’re doing all the cartography ourselves.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Source The Verge<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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