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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:50PM (#22609496)
No, it doesn’t: https://maps.apple.com/robots.txt
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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by wolco on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:27AM (#22613625)
The robot file doesn't want you scraping actual locations.

So it does have a way of accessing the maps over the web. But because they dis-allow locations they don't compete with google for location based queries.

Everyone is wrong or right, depending on if your glass is half full or empty.

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