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I thought Apple did have a relationship with Tomtom for this?

• cookiecaper 14y ago
  Yes, you're apparently right: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-tomtom-ios-6-maps/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-tomtom-ios-6-maps/ I'm not sure what all that deal entails, so it's hard to say whether it could have been better executed upon, other than to say it's clearly not ready yet. I find it hard to believe, however, that all of the incorrect placement of destinations and, in some cases, even the inclusion of destinations that have not existed for decades, also occur in TomTom's car navigation systems.
  • skeletonjelly 14y ago
    Sorry I should have found a source for you! It's pretty embarrassing for them too isn't it.
  • jrabone 14y ago
    One can always use http://routes.tomtom.com/ http://routes.tomtom.com/ as a source for comparison. It would also be good if certain journalists and bloggers did this before shooting their mouths off about data quality, but that wouldn't make a compelling headline.
  • glenra 14y ago
    TomTom is pretty good at directing you to a street address but is just terrible in terms of finding local destinations. I did a ~2000 mile road trip a few months ago and several times that I was looking for something specific I couldn't find it or found the wrong thing using TomTom. It turned out the best workflow was to look something up in Google Maps, get the address from Google, type that address into TomTom, and let TomTom direct me to that address.
• camiller 14y ago
  From the article "2. I suspect that the data and routing functionality that they have from TomTom, while not the best, is simply not the source of their problems. ..." The author of the article is suggesting the problem is the integration of lots of other data in with the TomTom data is the problem. Not the TomTom data