The problem was that someone at Apple decided to rip Google Maps out of the iPhone and make Apple Maps the default mapping application, as part of the crushing tectonic plate-like battle between these online behemoths.
Google Maps 3D and Yahoo Maps are listed among the "preferred" mapping options.
Google and Nokia are aggressively mapping venues and combined have nearly 40, 000 indoor maps worldwide.
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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.
Google has had mapping software since 2005, and a Google Maps app was pre-installed on the first iPhone starting in 2007.
We had two iPhones and two Android phones between us, allowing me to test Google Maps on both the iPhone and Android and Apple's own mapping app for the iPhone. (There's no Apple app on Android.) These apps all have turn-by-turn voice navigation and will nag you with new directions if you make a wrong turn or try to go off-course.
You can view maps in terrain or satellite and utilize GPS with altitude reading and position mapping features.
There, he ran the mobile apps lab before taking the role of director of Google Maps for mobile, where he oversees the Android and iOS versions of the iconic mapping app.
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On the road: Optional City Navigator mapping provides detailed street maps, millions of preloaded points of interest and onscreen turn-by-turn directions to your destination, and an optional Auto Nav kit adds a suction mount and car charger.
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The street mapping aspect of the new iOS Maps app pulls in data from Yelp and from what we can tell, Open Street Map.
Internet mapping sites feature detailed maps that can pinpoint street locations, churn out road conditions and provide destination routes.
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.
Twin Cities Traffic Net wins the prize for the best localized mapping site, supplying Minneapolis residents with easy-to-read and regularly updated traffic report maps.
These maps, which primarily adorned the world's churches and other places of power and learning, succeeded in returning mapping to the dark ages, getting much wrong and gleefully so.
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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.
Likewise, there's no question that Google's top-flight mapping experience is currently reserved for Android, and you could even point to Apple's own Maps app including complex 3D visuals that Google Maps lacks on iOS, if you need that extra dimension of reference.
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