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Re:If I Were Google, I Wouldn’t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps ... by philjohn on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:28AM (#4547283)
Have you tried the new maps? The only real regressions I can see are poorer satellite imagery coverage (big whoop - it's a gimmick for 90% of the time) and non existent public transport routing. In my experience in the UK, the public transport routing never really worked on the google provided maps either.

The maps themselves are provided by TomTom and in the UK and Europe at least they are very high quality, can't speak for the US.

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Re:If I Were Google, I Wouldn’t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps ... by masklinn on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:08AM (#4547721)
> The only real regressions I can see are poorer satellite imagery coverage

Map coverage of US campuses is also way down. Which makes a very small but vocal segment (US uni students) completely lose their mind over the issue. If you go to the apple/iphone subreddit, 9 out of 10 maps criticisms are US uni campus.

On the other hand, considering how those things work, I'd expect non-US locations to be just as downgraded as US campus (and testimonies in this thread seem to confirm it)

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Re:If I Were Google, I Wouldn’t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps ... by trin_ on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:00AM (#4547707)
the maps for the town i'm living in (250k people, state capital in germany) are not entirely accurate. the positions of the listed businesses especially. some are downright false and some are misplaced by sometimes 400-500m.
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Re:If I Were Google, I Wouldn’t Release A Native iOS 6 Maps ... by starik36 on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:54AM (#4547547)
I agree. I used it on the way home with the step by step directions and it was pretty nice and right on the spot. The graphics are also very pleasant and the visual cues are easy to grok.

The only thing I miss is street view. But I doubt that's coming back.

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