Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps

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Post by chippy » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 3:12 PM UTC

Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
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Post by dingo_bat » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.

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Post by sangnoir » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:22 PM UTC

> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population

First I've heard someone say that about any Apple product.

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Post by pkaye » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

sangnoir wrote: post #3

> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population First I've heard someone say that about any Apple product.

It will be difficult for Apple to do this unless they can get their maps software on Android or make the iPhone more affordable everywhere (compared to the Android)

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Post by nandhp » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

dingo_bat wrote: post #2

I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.

And the images are too small.

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Post by snopesbuffert » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:01 PM UTC

nandhp wrote: post #5

dingo_bat wrote: post #2

I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.

And the images are too small.

Click on them and they will get bigger.

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Post by qqg3 » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:08 PM UTC

sangnoir wrote: post #3

> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population First I've heard someone say that about any Apple product.

Important to point out this guy used to work for Apple on the maps product. So he may be a little biased.

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Post by chocochoco » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:33 PM UTC

qqg3 wrote: post #7

sangnoir wrote: post #3

> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population First I've heard someone say that about any Apple product.

Important to point out this guy used to work for Apple on the maps product. So he may be a little biased.

I looked him up also. He spoke at Google IO a few years ago. I can't tell if he worked at Google, but he also wrote some posts on their Geo Dev blog. So he could biased toward Google too.

Anyway, I read the post twice (it was good) and had trouble even finding bias. It reads more like a lab report than an opinion piece and he had criticisms of both maps.

Kinda can't believe he even worked on apple maps. The post was surprisingly fair.

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Post by distances » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:51 PM UTC

Apple Maps is only available for Apple products, right? The claim in the article that it could become some kind of a universal map seems simply ridiculous. I've never seen anyone use it, I've never heard a good word about it. Here Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap all seem to have a larger following.

Then again, I've been wrong countless times before.

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Post by CephalopodMD » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 10:54 PM UTC

Isn't it fallacious to count users of both types of maps since they're installed by default on each of the two tech giants' OS?