But the new Apple Maps app does not have transit directions included in the app.
The Apple maps app in iOS6 has been widely derided as inferior to Google Maps.
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Android already destroyed iOS in Q3 shipments, and Apple maps were particularly weak overseas.
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On the positive side, Siri and Apple maps are pretty good at finding nearby restaurants.
For every problem in Apple Maps, you can find a similar serious problem in Google Maps.
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In case you missed it, Apple has been having problems with its Apple Maps service.
While Apple Maps remains the default option, inertia will mean that many users stick with it.
Google will draw away Apple Maps users who would otherwise help Apple improve its app.
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Is Apple Maps the first of many places that Apple will start to cut corners?
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It would also have to contend with an Apple Maps app that will undoubtedly get better.
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After all, the Times reports that Apple has fixed some of the early problems with Apple Maps.
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Inaccuracies in Apple Maps could be "life-threatening" to motorists in Australia's searing heat, police have warned.
In my experience using Apple Maps, and the experience of others I know, Apple Maps has worked flawlessly!
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Apple Maps misplaced airports, hospitals and entire cities, the latter leaving some drivers stranded in the Australian desert.
We'd pick it over Nokia Here in most cases, and usually Apple Maps.
Did you put off upgrading to iOS 6 because of Apple Maps?
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But the biggest change for me so far is the new Apple Maps app, which replaces the Google Maps app.
Apple maps, for one, has disabused us of that notion, and with it the instant aura of future Apple products.
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To me, Apple Maps seemed like the bigger embarrassment with so many seemingly obvious errors allowed to appear at launch.
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The Apple maps will include a local search feature, integrated with Yelp, that already has 100 million business listings, Forstall says.
Less than stellar consumer reviews on a number of applications from MobileMe to Apple Maps have nicked away at that promise.
That issue arose last week when the researchers at Media Measurement were looking at sentiment around Apple Maps for me.
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It reminds me of the Apple Maps fiasco: An obvious problem ignored.
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One of my complaints about Apple maps is that the text showing your time and distance to destination is much too small.
As former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gasse pointed out, Forstall was behind the flawless Apple Maps demo and flowery adjectives that praised it.
There are already more than 100 million iOS devices using the new Apple Maps, with more and more joining us every day.
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If Nocera stopped there, with the idea that Steve Jobs would never have released Apple Maps, the piece would simply have been boring.
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The other day I was out and about and decided to take a look at what Apple Maps overhead imagery had to offer.
And that seems to be the general reaction over here to the experience of the new Apple Maps release in iOS 6.
Google: For one thing, Apple Maps is a pretty impressive piece of work, including turn-by-turn navigation, crowd-sourced traffic information and integrated Siri voice controls.
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