For every problem in Apple Maps, you can find a similar serious problem in Google Maps.
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In Google Maps, that advertising includes brand icons--a first for Google, and one that likely allows them to charge a premium.
The new feature means that users can add locations of stores, or any number of possibilities in fact, to Map Maker that might get included in Google Maps.
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New features demoed for the first time today include a configurable home screen launcher, accelerometer integration in Google Maps' Street View, Pacman (which we can only assume will become the Solitaire of Android), and a new unlock UI for touchscreen-based devices.
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Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations.
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Whereas GIS professionals take great pains to ensure accuracy in maps, Google treats maps like all other Internet content.
While Apple is having to apologize for the poor quality of its maps in the West, it is clearly superior to Google Maps in China.
Critics expressed a clear preference for Google Maps in this commentary, with over 10% of all comments regarding maps being a direct vote for Google.
This is what Apple has done to Google by choosing China as the best venue in its challenge to Google Maps.
In September, Apple dropped Google Maps from its iOS software in favour of its own mapping program.
In short, Apple and Google might have been seen as heading in opposite directions over maps, but Google is at the (lowercase n) nexus of a whole lot of things that are making the iPhone better than it has ever been.
To its credit, it provides turn-by-turn directions, a feature that Google has long included in the Android version of Google maps but not on the iOS version that Apple used to offer.
For we use Google Maps in Germany to guide trucks to a mining site.
Apple's decision to eschew Google Maps in iOS 6 is a big deal.
As expected, Apple also is developing its own GPS-based mapping application to replace Google Maps in iOS 6.
Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
Much has been written about the forthcoming 3-D maps that could leave Google Maps in the dust and score points for Apple in the simmering rivalry.
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Smith is almost certain to focus on operations inside the philanthropy, particularly the management of engineers producing products like communications tools for disease specialists in the field or Google maps identifying geothermal fields.
Take a look at Google Maps in 2005.
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But mainly, I wanted to see how Google Maps fared compared with Apple's Maps, which kicked Google Maps off the iPhone in September.
But the difference is that Apple Maps has only been in existence about a month, while Google Maps has been around for a decade (and even still it has lots of errors and missing data).
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.
The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.
The company is reporting that iOS 6 adoption is up 29% in the five days after Google Maps, which it guesses is the result of people waiting for the weekend to do the big install.
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Apple is perhaps the most egregious, jealously guarding its own perimeter in the most arbitrary and capricious way, and even, in the case of pulling Google maps off the iPhone, going to the extent of cutting off its own nose to spite its face.
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The Apple maps app in iOS6 has been widely derided as inferior to Google Maps.
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So, in late August, Smugmug used Google Maps to launch a new service, called smugMaps.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Apple and Google are now in a mobile maps war.
In the last two months, Google Maps has been completely wrong three times.
In fact, that the new Google Maps app is much better than the old Google Maps which Apple threw off iOS only three months back.
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