Google Maps != Google Now. So your use case is cool and may well be the future but that isn't what we are talking about here. My point is that street/POI data d

Google Maps != Google Now. So your use case is cool and may well be the future but that isn't what we are talking about here. My point is that street/POI data does not have a high turnover so the gap between Apple and Google will get closer not wider. The interesting question is whether Apple is even going to bother to license data. They could well rely on Yelp's geo expansion to do the work for them. God knows what will happen if Yelp goes out of business though.