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"A search of Apple's job site for positions relating to maps reveals 17 positions related to its Maps product, points out Adam Haworth on Twitter. The listings include engineering positions for Flyover, vectorizing mapping images, navigation and more.\r\n\r\nThe positions include Maps Operations project manager, Maps iOS software engineers, engineers for MapKit \u2014 Apple's maps interface for third-party developers \u2014 and more.\r\n\r\nOne Maps Navigation position\u00A0reveals that the team is looking for someone experienced in the following:\r\n\r\n\tExperience implementing routing algorithms such as Dijstra and A*\r\n\tExperience determining and/or presenting maneuvers in a turn-by-turn navigation system\r\n\tFamiliarity with map matching from GPS and other location data\r\n\tFamiliarity with map data formats from TomTom or other leading map providers\r\n\tStrong mathematical and computational geometry background\r\n\tExperience with the iOS SDK and Cocoa programming\r\n\r\nIt is interesting to note that none of the positions appear to be related to data collection and input, what most consider to be the weakest point of Apple's Maps. Most of the listings were posted as recently as early September.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple has come under fire today for the relatively poor performance of its new Maps app, especially in comparison to the Google-based maps it replaced. \u00A0In our review of Apple's Maps on iOS, we noted that it had a very long way to go if it wanted to compete with Google's product, and it looks like Apple is hiring to do just that."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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