Comments on: iPhoto for iOS ditches Google Maps

By: Bob Bigellow

Bob Bigellow — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:07:00 +0000

This could be the beginning of the end of Apple’s perceived quality.

In the past, Apple has always been about doing things better (in quality) than anyone else… often by leaps and bounds.

This silly vendetta with Google has caused them to lose focus and lose sight on quality. Now, it would seem they are willing to create a maps offering that is inferior to Google’s, then implement it before it’s ready. If they keep heading down this path, the quality of their products are going to continue to degrade, which is a sad state of affairs.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:49:00 +0000

Apple are using OpenStreetMap data outside of the US as far as the OSM community can determine. They are definitely using it in the UK. However they are using data from April 2010 and seem to be rendering paths and tracks in the same way as residential roads, so overall this makes the maps pretty poor compared with up to date OSM or Google Maps.

By: Jon1979

Jon1979 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:38:00 +0000

given the map above is of London, i’m guessing the answer is it works in the UK at least…

By: kNevik

kNevik — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:25:00 +0000

Has anyone tried iphoto in countries other than the us. Apple services tend to be much better in the us than other countries, even the uk which has a large apple presence. If apple wants to change google for their own service it must cover as much as google currently does i.e. everywhere.