Like many other apps and purpose-built devices, GolfLogix provides course maps and GPS yardages during a round.
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Users of Strava compete without bibs, registration fees, starting guns, doping protocols, referees, podiums or course maps.
Sentiment around Maps was of course much more negative than general sentiment towards Apple but in fact sentiment had two specific impacts on Apple, sales and reputation.
Not that anyone should rely entirely upon a map of any sort of course, but mistakes in the Apple Maps application in iOS6 do seem to pose perhaps more danger than some other such mistakes.
Over two months ago, Internet search giant Google acknowledged that in the course of collecting information for its Google Maps Street View project, its roving vehicles inadvertently collected data, such as bits of web pages and email messages, over public, unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
Right now Google makes money from maps from search-type ads, of course, but also from existing corporate packages.
The inspiration for the piece of course is the recent introduction of Apple (AAPL) Maps last week in the new iOS 6 and iPhone 5 as a replacement for Google (GOOG) Maps.
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He tracked the muggers' footprints on sand dunes over the course of several weeks, to get data for the maps, and established a pattern that helped police predict the attacks, so that they could lie in wait.
Now, range anxious EV drivers can pull up Google Maps before leaving the house and plot their daily course around the location of charging stations even though a 100-mile range is more than sufficient for the average driver.
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Hundreds of hours of preparation and planning, good fish intelligence (satellite maps, dockside info, charts analysis), an experienced crew, patience, and, of course, good luck.
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