Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Google Maps

Re:Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Goog... by lilc on Monday October 01, 2012 @07:20PM (#4599861)

I find it ironic that Apple is using RPC-encoded Google protocol buffers for communication in their Maps product.

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Re:Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Goog... by sli on Monday October 01, 2012 @10:55PM (#4600436)

I'd like to hear more about that. Care to elaborate?

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Re:Apple Maps up to five times more data efficient than Goog... by lilc on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @02:04PM (#4603312)

During the last XCode beta, I was playing around with the iPhone simulator and using a proxy I saw the server would respond to geocoding requests with an 'application/x-protobuf' header. That header has since been removed, but the data is still encoded the same (comparing the same request before and after). I was going to try to figure out the RPC encoding method Apple's using, but I lost motivation after reading that they are rate-limiting the API, making it less useful to me.

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