Tag: apple
Google Maps for iOS 6 Released and the Onion Parodies Apple Maps
iOS6 iPhone users, rejoice! Back in September Apple dropped Google Maps as the default mapping and navigation app when it released iO6, instead replacing it with an in-house mapping app. After months of speculation and anxious waiting, Google Maps for iPhone and iPod Touch has been released (unfortunately, a larger version for iPad users is [...]
Show Me the Data
All the uproar over Apple’s Map app debacle shows that at the end of the day, all the whizz bang over flyovers, 3D renderings, and turn-by-turn voice directions can’t make up for bad data. In addition to lacking much of the geographic data and street level imagery that Google Maps contain, the new Map app [...]
Maps with Apple, Google, and Amazon
Today marks the latest release of Apple’s mobile operating system which also means the default map app on the iOS devices changes from Google to an Apple version. Google’s Map app was the preloaded mapping app for iPhones and iPads but Apple made the move earlier this year to dump Google in favor of an [...]
Google vs. Apple: Dueling Mobile Map Apps
Ever since the launch of the iPhone, iOS devices came preloaded with Maps, an app built using Google Maps. That five year mapping relationship is about to come to an end. The past few years have been dotted with rumors, conjectures, and industry pontification about various geospatial acquisitions and job hirings by Apple. Over the [...]
OpenStreetMap: Grassroots Mapping
OpenStreetMap was founded with the goal of creating and providing free geographic data to whoever wants it. With an army of 5,000 volunteers who hit the streets around the world with GPS units to capture street segments or who participate in applying attribute information to collected data, the project has growing geographic data in thirty-nine [...]