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Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’

Posted on March 9th, 2012 at 13:26 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, Google -- Write a comment

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Thanks heavens it’s only for photo-tagging: Apple has tossed yet another gauntlet onto the ground in its ongoing spat with Google, dropping Google Maps out of iPhoto for iOS and opting for OpenStreetMap instead.

  1. Desiato on March 9th, 2012 at 13:55:

    Aside from the well-known “you ripped off the iPhone” spat, is this possibly also because Google has started charging for Google Maps pageviews?

  2. Mr. n on March 11th, 2012 at 18:01:

    Please consider they dind’t just “opted for”. They STOLE the maps, removing the licensing informations and any link to OSM.

  3. John Sinteur on March 11th, 2012 at 23:43:

    You’re quite a bit more harsh about this than OpenStreetMap themselves are:

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    Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap.

    [..]

    It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there.

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