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Report: Google Maps for iOS Is Imminent

We’d already heard before that in the wake of the Apple Maps iOS 6 fiasco, Google was plotting its own app for iOS to launch before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that the app is in the polishing stages, and that it will soon be submitted for approval to Apple.…

Google Maps now shows terrain by default. Deserts and forests and mountains, oh my! [TechCrunch]

The Grand Canyon Is About to Get Google Street View

A team of Google employees is currently hiking through the Grand Canyon collecting the images for what will eventually become a Google Street View map of the park. (Man, working at Google sounds terrible.) The panoramic photos for the map are being collected using that funny-looking Street View camera mounted on the human being above.…

Google Maps has added 25 million new building footprints, because you were just looking for a reason to miss it more.

New App Puts Old iOS Google Maps Back on Your iPhone—Sort Of

There’s a new app out called ClassicMap that offers a half decent fix for anyone who’s looking for an alternative to Apple’s maligned Maps app, but really just wants things back the way they were. ClassicMap is built as basically the exact same app as Apple’s new Maps, but you can switch over to a…

Your iPhone Gets Google Maps Street View Back Tomorrow

Google Maps isn’t really gone from iPhones in iOS 6. You can still get it through the vastly inferior mobile version of its browser-based web app. Tim Cook even suggested you try it if you’re dissatisfied with Apple Maps. In a recent video about Google Maps, Señor Walt Mossberg notes that the company will be…

There Is One Very Important Thing That Apple Maps Is A Lot Better Than Google Maps At

Side by side, Google Maps is better than Apple Maps. No matter what anybody says, that’s the truth. But unbeknownst to most people, there’s actually something that Apple Maps is better at and it’s pretty damn important: Apple Maps is a lot more data efficient, nearly five times more data efficient than Google Maps. Meaning…

Artist Brings Street View Bystanders Back Into the Real World

Countless thousands have become the subject of candid photos thanks to Google’s Street View campaign. After they’re photographed, their faces are dutifully blurred, and they stand as digital statutes in cyberspace, but one artist likes bringing them back into the real world. Paolo Cirio likes to search around Street View for a subject, and when…

Google Maps Adds New High-Res Satellite Images and (Basically) Flyover for a Bunch of Cities

This sort of seems like piling on. Google just added a bunch of new high res images to its maps. That means its overhead satellite data should be even more up to date, and its 45-degree Flyover-like images will be more abundant. Fifty one new cities got the update to 45-degree images, which show cities…

Did Motorola Fake an Address to Make Apple Maps Look Even Worse Than It Is?

Everybody—or well, almost everybody—knows that Apple Maps is inferior to Google Maps. There are countless examples of Apple Maps being worse! Motorola, however, ignored all the real examples and used a fake address to show off how Google Maps is better than Apple Maps. Huh? https://gizmodo.com/17-people-who-actually-really-love-the-new-apple-maps-5946806 This was what Motorola posted to Google+ post (oh,…

What Happens When People Use Google Maps and Apple Maps in a Race?

Apple maps is unreliable, half-baked, and down right frustrating. But how does it actually stack up against the competition in real life? Reuters pits Apple’s solution up against Google Maps in a head-to-head race on the ground in Hong Kong, and the results probably won’t surprise you. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-apple-it-doesnt-just-work-5946425 The guy using Apple Maps was given…

Mobile Google Maps at maps.google.com will be getting Street View in two weeks says the New York Times.

Why Apple Really Ditched Google Maps

It’s been a curious thing, wondering why Apple dropped Google Maps in iOS 6 in favor of its own, half-baked mapping system. According to AllThingsD, the answer could be pretty simple: Turn-by-turn voice navigation. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-apple-it-doesnt-just-work-5946425 According to ATD’s sources, basically, Apple’s deal with Google never included turn-by-turn, even though Android has had that feature for…

NYT: Google Will Release Google Maps for iOS By the End of the Year

Corroborating an earlier report, the New York Times is reporting that Google is currently developing Google Maps for iOS and hopes to finish it by the end of the year. So iPhone owners running iOS 6, get used to the mixed up world of Apple Maps for the next couple of months. https://gizmodo.com/apple-didnt-have-to-make-apple-maps-yet-it-still-had-a-5946435 Why the…

Google Maps Has Freaking Amazing Underwater Street View Now

While we point and laugh at Apple Maps for being subpar and screwed up, Google just announced underwater Street View. Well, sort of announced. TechCrunch reports that the new underwater Street View—which is beautiful—is now available for taking a peek of the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii and the Philippines. Google partnered with The Catlin Seaview…

Apple Didn’t Have to Make Apple Maps Yet—It Still Had a Year Left on Its Google Maps Contract

Why did Apple kill Google Maps from iOS and make its own maps? The logical thinking was some combination of getting Google off iOS and Apple and Google’s Google Maps contract agreement being over. That’s only half true. Apple still could’ve used Google maps for another year under their current agreement, Apple just decided to…

Good News: Apple Still Uses Google Maps Where It Matters Most

Apple’s new Maps may be a horror show, but at least they haven’t fully permeated your iOS existence. As one redditor discovered recently, iCloud.com still uses Google Maps when you use its Find My Phone feature. It’s a sweet oasis, in your time of greatest need. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-3d-maps-are-an-apocalyptic-horror-show-5944672 There’s no good time to have your maps…

A Bootlegged Google Maps App Is Coming Soon to iOS 6 (Updated)

Really it was only a matter of time, but this was still surprisingly fast. What you see above is the iOS 5.1 version of Google Maps running—albeit a little jankily—in iOS 6. The porting was done by one Ryan Petrich, who says the port is working pretty well, but isn’t quite ready for release to…

It Might Be a Couple of Months Before We See a Proper Google Maps iPhone App

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis has sources at Google telling her that they hope to have a proper Google Maps iOS 6 app “before Christmas.” Not next week, not next month. Before Christmas. Ugh. That said, it could mean next week, or next month, but it’s not exactly promising. After using Apple maps, that was not exactly…

Why Apple Maps Won’t Get Better Anytime Soon

Apple’s maps are not off to a good start. They’re getting killed by critics and users alike. And rightly so! They don’t hold their own against last generation’s Google Maps on iOS 5. And what’s worse for Apple and its fans? Things probably won’t be getting better any time soon. https://gizmodo.com/17-people-apple-maps-has-already-horribly-misled-5944897 What Apple Maps Gets…