[Darksheare]

“Siri, are you taking me down this dark alley so you can murder and impersonate me?”

:Muh-hwah-hah-hah-haaaa! I mean, I have no idea what you are talking about.:
*clunk!*

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Just call it Mapple and everyone will love it!

[norwaypinesavage]

How can this be?? Apple is perfect! There is NOTHING better than Apple. There must be some right wing nut writing this.

[mindburglar]

Hopefully some other NBA owner gets recorded using racial terms, so Tim Cook can overpay for that team.

[overdog2]

Geo-maven Marc Prioleau pointed me to a copyright page earlier today that appears to reveal the identities of some or all the data partners Apple is using for its new Maps product. Here they are in the order they appear on the page:

TomTom
Acxiom
CoreLogic
DigitalGlobe
DMTI
Getchee
Intermap
LeadDog
Localeze
MapData Sciences Pty Ltd.
MDA Information Systems, Inc
Urban Mapping
Waze
Yelp

Point is... Apple is not in the “map business”... the map “application” is only as good as the data the providers provide.

No different than any other “program” created to work within an operating system.

[Swordmaker]

Actually, Apple Maps has been continuously overhauled over the last two years and is considerably better than what was released. It was actually pretty good then, with a few problems in the 3D views, but vastly overblown by Google’s FUD campaign. It has become imminently usable and I have been using it continuously over those two years and it has steered my wrong only once. . . compared to a dozen times that Google maps has sent me on wild goose chases.

This article is based on ONE anonymous source speaking to TechCrunch and has not been corroborated anywhere else.

[Swordmaker]

Mis-informed NBC affiliate weighs in with mis-leading, mis-direction FUD from single source speculation on Apple Maps based on Maps simply NOT being mentioned in the WWDC keynote address!—PING!

Apple FUD Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Apple Maps' worldview is now better than Google Maps'
By David Braue November 30, 2013 -- 04:06 GMT (20:06 PST)

It may have struggled with some quite high-profile errors in its early days, but Apple's latest improvements to its Apple Maps platform have not only helped it catch up with venerable geospatial giant Google – but will make Apple Maps far more relevant in the long term.

Those are harsh and difficult words from someone who, like all of us, has marvelled for years at the utility of the Google Maps Web service and the immersive worldwide journeys made possible through the Google Earth application. But they are a reality that bears addressing.

Google will always hold the significant achievement of bringing the literally world-changing geospatial technology to the mass market, but Apple's decision to incorporate its now-very-impressive Maps application into its Mavericks operating system reflects a significant change in the user experience that will give it far more clout in driving the standard for interactive consumer mapping into the future.

Some questioned whether including Maps in the operating system was a simply gratuitous nod to the increasing incursion of iOS user-interface tropes into the desktop Mac OS X environment.

Anyone so inclined should run up a full-screen instance of Maps on their 27-inch iMac, using Apple's Magic Trackpad to spin, zoom and fly through 3D renderings of cities around the world. It's a novelty on an iPhone, but on a 27-inch screen it's literally an adventure.

3D Interactive Flyover View in Apple Maps

Sure, you can do much the same with Google Earth, which has been available for Macs for some time. Both will also help you find your way to new places pinpoint accuracy, exploring a broad range of maps. . . (Excerpted from ZDNet. To read the full article click on the title to link to the article.)

[Swordmaker]

Basically, the headline is a total lie.

[amigatec]

One thing I have noticed is all of these map/gps devices use the same data. I live in a small town and if I type in my address all of them are at least 4 blocks off.

[Stentor]

Every time I drive somewhere with someone who has an Iphone, we play a game with Apple maps. For the game not to be a disaster, you have to know where you’re going. Put Maps on and wait for the misdirection. It’s kind of funny. Wrong turns in Bucks County PA, dead ends off route 70 in New Jersey when your destination is a large hotel on route 70 etc. Thanks for the entertainment. Love Waze.

[martin_fierro]

Personally I *have* found the Google Map app to be better than Apple’s. < |:(~

[zeugma]

I've gotta agree with the author. Apple maps sucks. You know what one feature these mapping apps really need more than anything else?

A freaking scale indicator. I mean, is this something that is, like impossible to do or something? Everyone I've ever mentioned it to agrees that it would ba a freaking Godsend, yet noone seems to do it!

/rant