[WOW!] #Apple’s Mashup Maps. Holy Aggregated Data!
Disclaimer: I generally agree that Apple made a bad mistake in how they released Maps. They should have allowed Google Maps to exist under iOS6. As well, they should have released their own Maps as a “beta” product.
That said, I have yet to experience any Maps issue that caused a global media sh*tstorm. Maybe I didn’t do enough brute testing but you get my point. Even Consumer Reports did their own tests and found the product to be reasonable. Maybe not good enough, but good.
Anyhow, I used the product on my #3GS over the weekend and noticed a small link to their page acknowledgements. I had no idea how much aggregated data Apple was using in its Maps product!
Have a look at this list:
- Tom Tom
- MultiNet North America
- Statistics Canada (via Tom Tom: Road Network File, 2006 Census Population and Dwelling Count Highlight Tables)
- Canada Post Corporation
- GeoBase
- Department of Natural Resources Canada
- Mulitnet SouthEast Asia
- Base Data - Bakosurtanal
- Macao Special Administration Region Government-Cartography and Cadastre Bureau
- MulitNet Europe
- Denmark, DAV
- MultiNet France
- IGN France
- Georoute / IGN France
- Michelin data
- Northern Ireland Ordinance Survey of Northern Ireland
- Norway: Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Norway: Public Roads Administration
- Map Solutions
- MultiNet Russia
- Roskartographia
- Switzerland: Swisstopo
- Netherlands: Topografische
- Netherlands: Dienst Voor Het Kadaster En De Openbare Registers
- Apeldoorn 2006
- Business Data Listings, Acxiom, 2012
- Map Data, AND
- CoreLogic Inc.
- DigitalGlobe
- Map and Postal Data, DMTI
- Business Listings Data, Factual
- Map Data, Getchee
- Increment P Corp (Japan)
- Intermap
- LeadDog
- Localeze
- Australia: Map Data Services Pty Ltd.
- MDA Information Systems
- Urban Mapping
- Israel: Waze
- Yelp
- Department of Natural Resources Canada
- CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
- Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset, Version 1.0
- GeoNames and Contributors
- GlobeCover, ESA and UCLouvain
- Royal Mail data
- OSDM, Commonwealth of Australia
- OpenStreetMap
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Geological Survey
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Apple’s new vector Maps work great for offline browsing (edibleapple.com)
- Apple pushes out first improvements to Maps, restores NYC landmarks (theverge.com)
- Consumer Reports: iOS6 Maps “Competent Enough”, iPhone 5 Ranked Top Smartphone (techcrunch.com)
