While TomTom continues to top Apple’s list of data providers for the backend of its Maps service, a few new additions have recently joined the list of contributors supplying information to Apple Maps. New sources providing business listing data per Apple’s acknowledgement page include E-WEGO SARL, NavAds BV, and Yellow Pages Turkey. The new data sources are likely noticeable in regions around the world including France and Turkey where the information is sourced.
Apple adds new data providers to its backend occasionally, most recently adding Gas Buddy and GreatSchools for points-of-interest and ratings data for its mapping service across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Earlier this week, we reported on some greater changes coming to Apple Maps including Apple’s plans to add transit directions to iOS 9 as well as details on its continued work with indoor mapping.
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They also added Wikipedia and Dianping a few weeks ago…
http://applemapsmarketing.com/2015/04/apple-maps-now-using-wikipedia-as-data-source/
Still no subway lines in New York. This strikes me as a serious oversight. The data is readily available and it does no good to know there’s a station somewhere without knowing which trains run through it.
Supposedly it is coming in iOS 9.
Yes, I’ve heard that. My complaint is that it took them too long to get it. While they were putting time and effort into sexy but less useful 3D flyovers there was and remains a lot of basic navigation information missing or inaccurate.
I don’t know about France but there is a massive war over maps apps in Turkey. Since the day Apple dropped Google Maps as default app, Google Maps didn’t appear in Turkish App Store. I know that nearly all versions of Google Maps after that have Turkish addresses, Turkish navigation guides, voices etc. (thanks to a US apple id) but that app not ever made its way to Turkish app store. As far as I know, Google never explained why it is so…
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