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I wish they would ignore their damn differences and get Google's map data back :-/

I'm grateful for the competition, even if Google didn't really need it to drive the state of the art forward thus far.

Why ? Apple just needs to approach the same data providers Google uses and they will be about 90% of the way there.

And they do so without having to hand over user data to Google.

You use this argument again and again. Now you'll reply that in Australia all the POI are taken from Whereis, yellowpages and Tele Atlas. And once again people have to remind you that having the same data providers is not enough: you need to correlate data and fix inconsistencies, mostly manually.

Now go here https://maps.google.com/?ll=-27.605671,142.207031&spn=33... and read on the lower left: Map data ©2012 GBRMPA, Google, Whereis(R), Sensis Pty Ltd - Imagery ©2012 TerraMetrics, Map data ©2012 GBRMPA, Google, Whereis(R), Sensis Pty Ltd, Tele Atlas -

Now click on the yellow stickman and check the area that is covered by street view. So stop spreading misinformation.

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