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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by MCRed on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:01PM (#8718320)
I've had a great experience with Apple Maps, which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too) and TomTom. I've found it's accurate enough to just trust it, and it's excellent at detecting and rerouting when I can't do what it wanted me to (eg: traffic in the way, or I just miss the turn.)
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by thomersch_ on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:50PM (#8718679)
Apple has no official contributions to OSM. We are not even sure in which cases they use the data.
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by rmc on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:47PM (#8718643)
I didn't think Apple Maps gave any data back to OSM, do you have a link? I thought it was just one dump file from a few years ago that they used.
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by Doctor_Fegg on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:49PM (#8719430)
There's a suggestion that Apple is now using current OSM data (the latest Apple Maps copyright notice has ©2014, which it didn't before) but, that said, I've not seen any indication of it here in the UK.
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by ris on Monday December 08, 2014 @03:36PM (#8718996)
"which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too)"

I know for a fact this isn't true. What was your source for this?

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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by discardorama on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:18PM (#8719245)
Outside the US, Apple Maps suck ass (I'm sorry, but there's no other way to put it).
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by threeseed on Monday December 08, 2014 @06:02PM (#8719812)
It depends on the city. In Melbourne, Australia for example I find Google Maps to be less accurate than Apple Maps. I also found the same in parts of Tokyo.
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by alexanderstu on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @04:29AM (#8728408)
It's also great in Switzerland. And got improved in Serbia. Great for Austria, Italy and Germany. Europe is not that bad. For me way better than Google maps (especially for car navigation)
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by AllenKids on Monday December 08, 2014 @09:40PM (#8720663)
That is not true, Apple map is better than Google's in China, better than Baidu at navigation even. It uses a local map provider's (amap.com) data of course.
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by bluenose69 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @06:38AM (#8722210)
In my region (Atlantic Canada), OSM is much more detailed, up-to-date, and accurate than Apple maps.
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