I would say just as in most ads these are half-truths. I think this article[0] hits the nail on the head in that Motorola/Google are promoting the fact that so

I would say just as in most ads these are half-truths. I think this article[0] hits the nail on the head in that Motorola/Google are promoting the fact that something that is pretty much gibberish such as "315 e 15th ny" can be translated into a pretty accurate address of what the user wants. Again like one of the top comment in the thread about the Ontario map comparison. It's not about the visualization of the maps, it's not about the data, it's about search. Apple just does not have search down very well in general. I think that a big thing Google Maps had over most other services was to estimate pretty well what the user is looking for even if he only has a slight idea of what he's actually looking for. And to be fair sometimes Google corrects my search results WAY too much. I can't think of examples right now but there are times where the synonym they use for a search term isn't actually a synonym in context to what I'm looking for. Anyways all this Map discussion on HN has me pretty exhausted about talking about maps for a really long time. PS. Reading that forum thread, I can understand the accusations that Google is lying, but the ones where people are replying to people who try to interject that Apple's Maps aren't up to snuff getting replies like, "Do people even use Maps that much?", or "Do you get lost that much" is pretty sad. [0] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/did-googles-motorola-fake-an-ad-critical-of-apples-maps-nope?utm_campaign=tmo_story_sidebar http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/did-googles-motorola-...