It turns out that building an excellent mobile mapping service is a complex process.
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The force advised travellers to use an alternative mapping service until the issues had been fixed.
Yahoo just debuted a mapping service that shows where your friends are gathering on, say, New Year's Eve.
Apple released its own iPhone mapping service last year after using Google mapping data since the phone's inception.
Google just announced a cloud-based mapping service for business, and Microsoft may head there with a better-quality product.
Apple launched its own mapping service on its mobile devices last September.
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Well, that's one more option to Google's mapping service and one less company paying data dividends into the Mountain View system.
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Mr. Forstall was asked to leave the company after refusing to sign a letter apologizing for problems with the company's new mapping service.
But what Steve Jobs failed to mention that many location-based services used by apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp require a mapping service to show location.
He was involved in pushing out the executive who oversaw Apple's new mapping service, Richard Williamson, about two weeks ago, according to people briefed on that matter.
London, England (CNN) -- Google agreed Friday to delete data it inadvertently collected from unsecured Wi-Fi networks when compiling its Street View mapping service in Britain, authorities said.
They include a mapping service keeping the government accountable on schools that it has agreed to build or expand -- the map reveals any progress -- or lack thereof.
On Wednesday, Google vice president of engineering Brian McClendon declined to directly address Apple's mapping efforts, other than to say Google would continue to work on providing comprehensive mapping service to Apple device users.
In other company news, 36 years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin strode upon the Earth's only natural satellite, Schmidt's firm has launched Google Moon: A mapping service that lets homo sapiens explore the lunar surface from their PCs.
As readers have pointed out here on Forbes, even though the company has been criticized for its patent actions, the lack of an iPhone 5 wow factor, and its new mapping service, pre-sales of the iPhone 5 quickly went over the 2 million mark.
Beyond Ground Truth, Google also aims to improve its service by mapping the interiors of more buildings - the current emphasis is on transport hubs, shopping centres, museums and business that pay for an approved photographer to visit them.
"We are mapping out a return-to-service plan, and we look forward to getting our 787s back in the air, " she said by e-mail.
Far be it from the Dutch service to rest on its mapping laurels, though: it's now poised to take on Uber and other players in the taxi-hailing world.
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After all, Google has been solving the problem of creating accurate mapping data for much longer and Google Maps is a far better service.
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