Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps

Re:Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps by statictype on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:59PM (#11839267)

Apple Maps is useless in India and South Asia in general. It was useless on Day 1 and is pretty much just as useless today.

Google Maps on the other hand, not only has turn-by-turn directions, but has even customized it to give directions the way they do it locally (using buildings and landmarks instead of streets where applicable).

If Apple Maps wants to become a Universal Map platform, they have a very long way to go.

I don't see it in their DNA to make these types of platforms.

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Re:Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps by yalogin on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:22PM (#11839325)

Of course they started at least 10 years after Google.

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Re:Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps by statictype on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:50PM (#11839543)

Google had to wait for the tech to catch up. Apple didn't have to.

Apple is the world's richest company - ´ if they really wanted to make maps work everywhere they could have.

Its simply not a priority for them (which is fine).

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