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The app works fine. The user experience is better than the previous with the new features (navigation, voice). It's not a tech problem. The whole problem revol

The app works fine. The user experience is better than the previous with the new features (navigation, voice). It's not a tech problem. The whole problem revolves around business strategy. Mapping data. Google monopolizes this area, and the other providers are all tied to Apple's competitors (Microsoft, Nokia). So either they come up with their own, or stay on the hands of competitors (since mapping is such a core feature). I wish they adopt Open Street Maps, or contribute back to it. Mapping is one area where all good solutions are proprietary and in the hand of a few, it completely sucks.

ralfd 14y ago
Apple uses Open Street Map. See here: http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/ http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/ Adopting/Contributing to the project as their number one mapping foundation would be nice and would have provided them tons of goodwill. But I guess Apple also wants to use OSM together with data from other commercial sources (tomtom).
- boristhespider 14y ago
  That applies to the strange, pre–iOS 6 iPhoto-specific map tiles. OSM is acknowledged in the new app's acknowledgements, but so far there are places where the Maps.app is less detailed than the basic OSM database – but no doubt this can and will get better.