No longer. iOS 6 is the first Apple operating system to implement native mapping software.
It turns out that the iQue uses mapping software that is similar to that on the Streetpilot III.
Mr. Schilling used geo-mapping software to calculate the best positions for regional "washing stations" where farmers clean coffee fruit.
Even geekier, you can use mapping software to input any road with elevation info, even my local races, into the system.
Google has had mapping software since 2005, and a Google Maps app was pre-installed on the first iPhone starting in 2007.
His comments came a few days after Apple was flooded with complaints about its switch from Google Maps to its own location-mapping software.
This allows the log to be read by a laptop computer and displayed as a journey on Google Earth, the software giant's popular world-mapping software.
Geomagic created 3D mapping software that could make it a reality.
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Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
The iPhone 5 features a larger screen, faster networking capabilities, a more powerful processor and an updated operating system, which includes new mapping software that replaces the popular Google Maps.
The new maps, however, were at the heart of a customer backlash that began Wednesday after Apple released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6, which contained the new mapping software.
That all changed a few years ago when, in a demonstration of its network mapping software, Trampoline Systems distilled the reams of data to a clickable form and uploaded the resulting database to enronexplorer.com.
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San Francisco (CNN) -- Google unveiled some upgrades to its mapping software on Wednesday ahead of Apple's expected announcement that it will ditch Google Maps on iPhones and iPads in favor of its own technology.
Fortunately for them, assembling all that data back in Mountain View was a far less rigorous task: Google engineers use their mapping software to link the photos to their shooting locations and string them together to create the panoramic paths users walk through.
The GPS coordinates are appended to each image and easily syncs with Canon software or mapping apps on social network sites to show image locations.
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In September, Apple dropped Google Maps from its iOS software in favour of its own mapping program.
Yet ESRI itself, until now focused mainly on high-end corporate and government clients, is responding to the Google excitement by making its latest software features available online to the mapping masses.
From mapping sites to social networks, web-based software evolves much faster than desktop software, which often looks old-fashioned by comparison.
The non-profit software company that develops open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Ushahidi is one of the better-known success stories, developing open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
But with a 6-year head start in mapping and complete control of the hardware and the operating software, it is plausible bet.
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Over the last year and a half Yabuki's engineers have been mapping out where potentially useful bits of information reside across Fiserv's disparate software systems.
Morgan started out mapping Boston with his co-founder using an antenna, a Microsoft Windows 95 laptop and piece software called Netstumbler.
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Apple only began building its maps software in 2009 under Mr. Jobs, with an eye toward making its version the default mapping app on the iPhone and, later, the iPad.
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