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"Apple's New Maps App Versus Google Maps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3D Flyover\nBoth Apple and Google offer a 3D Flyover function, allowing you to virtually fly over a particular location.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTraffic\n\nBoth Google Maps and Apple's Maps can give you traffic information as well as general directions.\nApple's Maps will also use crowd-sourced information on accidents, allowing you to better see potential slow downs before they slow you down.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRouting\n\nBoth maps will be able to give you driving and walking directions.\nApple Maps, however, will not offer public transportation maps at launch, unlike its Google counterpart.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal Search\n\nApple's Maps offers a local search function that allows you to look up local restaurants and businesses. \nWhile you can also look up restaurants using Google Maps, Apple's Maps will integrate in Yelp information, allowing you to check out restaurants by rating and read reviews.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocal Search\nSearches for local restaurants and businesses in Apple's Maps will show not only the business, but also its Yelp rating and reviews.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoogle Maps has been available on the iPhone since the device's launch, but on Monday Apple announced its own version of Maps for iOS 6 \u2014 one that will be replace the Google service on its smartphones.\nGoogle recently announced an update to its mapping service as well. While both services certainly have a lot in common, there are also quite a few distinctive differences between the two.\nTurn-by-Turn Directions, but No Public Transportation\nThe Apple version of maps brings turn-by-turn navigation to the iPhone, a traffic view, and anonymous real-time crowd-sourced incident reports for traffic problems you encounter along the way.\nWhile Apple Maps will bring turn-by-turn directions to the iPhone, it will take away one feature may city dwellers have come to know and love: public transportation directions. In its current form, Apple Maps does not have public transportation directions built in.  That might potentially be because most cities write their transportation in GTFS (General Transit Data Feed originally known as Google Transit Data Feed). While that data is open and free to use \u2013- and used by most if not all of the transportation apps out there \u2013- it was developed in part by Google, which may make Apple reluctant to use it.\nSiri Integration\nSiri gets to make an appearance in Apple Maps. Apple's digital assistant can give you information on anything from where the nearest gas station is to how much longer your trip is going to take. \nThe integration offers many of the same features as your traditional GPS, possibly because it's getting a lot of its power from a traditional GPS company. Leaked pictures of the Maps interface acquired by Engadget indicate that TomTom is providing a good bit of data for the service. TomTom has been offering turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone since 2009, and its iOS app will likely become somewhat if not entirely obsolete with the release of turn-by-turn directions in iOS 6.\nLocal Search\nBoth Google Maps and Apple Maps allow you to look up a particular resturant near you. Apple's version, however, also integrates inYelp information into searches, allowing you to see a particular resturant's rating and read reviews before you make a choice on where to dine.\n3D Flyover vs. Tour Guide\nBoth Google Maps and Apple Maps will be offering a flyover feature for getting a birds-eye view of a particular area. Google's will be called Tour Guide, while Apple's will be called simply 3D Flyover.\nWhile we'll definitely have wait until both are released to do a side-by-side comparison, on the surface Apple's flyover looks to be a bit more impressive and run smoother. Images in the Maps are rendered in real time in exceptionally detailed 3D.\nOver the past three years Apple acquired three mapping companies, two of which specialized in 3D maps, which undoubtably helped it create such a robust product at launch.\nCheck out a video demo of Apple's Maps below shot by our own Pete Pachel at Apple's WWDC keynote. What do you think of Apple's new Maps? Would you rather use it or Google Maps? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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