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RE: What's actually happening
By KC7SWH on 9/25/2012 2:27:09 PM , Rating: 4
Somewhere there is an Apple engineer saying "I reject your reality and substitute my own"

RE: What's actually happening
By GPig on 9/26/2012 1:36:33 AM , Rating: 2
RE: What's actually happening
By Tony Swash on 9/26/12, Rating: -1
RE: What's actually happening
By croc on 9/26/2012 7:12:28 AM , Rating: 3
Sometimes it pays to keep quiet and just be thought a fool....

RE: What's actually happening
By Paj on 9/26/2012 7:36:27 AM , Rating: 3

If that were true, then why is the Google Maps API far and away the most widely used in the world?

It is Google users who submit corrections or amendments to Google maps. In many respects it is like a wiki.


Except Yelp also uses the Google Maps API on all their listings.


Surely the same problem applies to Apple and it's partners? If a company that's not Google has mapping data for a particular area, what says theyre going to go to Apple?


From a technical standpoint, this is probably Apple's biggest weakness. Having to deal with dozens of different mapping companies, each with their own little fiefdoms responsible for mapping various little pieces of the world. This also causes problems with each company supplying it's data in different formats - some vector, some bitmap, some at one scale, some at another scale. All of these have to be converted to a universal format that the Apple maps API can recognise. These are the likely causes of many of the stranger errors being seen on Apple Maps.

RE: What's actually happening
RE: What's actually happening
By inaphasia on 9/26/2012 11:36:54 AM , Rating: 3
That was a very longwinded way to compare apples to oranges. Now do an Apple to apples comparison with an actual hardware maker. You may not have heard of them but the company is called Nokia and they own another company you most certainly never heard of called Navteq.

By BifurcatedBoat on 9/26/2012 2:54:40 PM , Rating: 1
How much is Apple paying you? Is it by the word?

