Transit Directions Expand to UK National Rail, Atlanta and Miami

[Carlanga]

Google Maps was started 11 years ago which means they have a 7 year head start on Apple Maps - maybe THAT you can understand.
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Google Maps was released in Feb 2005 - Apple Maps in September 2012 - that's a 7 year head start - 7 years to add all the roads, rivers, railways and bus routes before Apple even got into Maps.

And remember why Apple got into the Map business in the first place - because Google refused to give the Apple version of their Maps App feature parity with the Android version, that is until Apple dumped them in favour of their own Maps App.

The funny thing about maps its that no matter how new you are to the game it shouldn't miss big things like hospital or roads and rivers. Age is not an excuse for map quality, POI I can give you that, but not the actual maps.

Secondly, the google vs apple map stuff you are saying is wrong.

 

[LCPepper]

Lol... Why have they bothered with National Rail, when most of the time trains never even leave the station (or arrive at them).

 

[Rafagon]

OS X actually notified me of this fact today. iOS didn’t do it. Or at least, not that I saw.

 

[jakebro]

Google Maps was started 11 years ago which means they have a 7 year head start on Apple Maps - maybe THAT you can understand.
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Google Maps was released in Feb 2005 - Apple Maps in September 2012 - that's a 7 year head start - 7 years to add all the roads, rivers, railways and bus routes before Apple even got into Maps.

And remember why Apple got into the Map business in the first place - because Google refused to give the Apple version of their Maps App feature parity with the Android version, that is until Apple dumped them in favour of their own Maps App.

Apple's situation now is different from Google's in 2005 (and 2001, when Where 2 began developing what is now Google Maps). There are now open source projects (like OpenStreetMap) that have data Apple could use. Apple could even crowd source data or hire people to map areas they're familiar with.