Google Maps back on iPhone
Google has its Maps app for iPhone, in the wake of complaints about Apple software.
Apple controversially replaced search giant mapping service with own when it released its latest device, iPhone 5. The move was widely criticized for many errors were found in the search Apple Maps results.
Google's app introduces features that were previously limited to Android devices. One analyst said it would prove popular, but added that Nokia is still a challenge.
The companies are partly motivated by a desire to data automatically generated by mobile phones using their software, but also as private users to collect feedback. This allows them to fine tune their services and the accuracy of features such as traffic status updates to improve.
Android's advantage
Google has introduced features that were not available in previous iPhone app include:
1. Voice guided turn-by-turn directions, estimated travel times.
2. Indoor panoramic pictures of the buildings that have signed up for Street View Business Photos service
3. 3D representations of the contours of buildings that can be seen from different perspectives
4. Vector-based graphics based on mathematical lines and points instead of predefined bitmap graphics, making it faster to get in and out in a field.
Among the facilities iPhone app is missing from Google, which is present in the Android equivalent of the cards, the ability to download maps for offline viewing and voice search. But over time, said project manager Kai Hansen BBC that what happens on one platform should be on the other side.
"The goal is obviously to make it as uniform and consistent an experience as possible," he said.
Ground Truth
Net Software A dedicated Apple still has an edge that is the integration of Flyover interactive photo-realistic views of selected cities using 3D-rendered graphics cards app provides.
Google offers a similar feature in Google Earth, which is being promoted in the main map app, but with the transition to a separate program. But for many users. The main function of the level of accuracy offered by Google
Since 2008, the company Ground Truth Project mashed together licensed data with information from a fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
Apple also wants to improve its own data through user feedback, but with less risk to work as iPhone users to switch to another product. There was speculation Apple, Google app rejection of his shop because of this.
But because sales of the iPhone is the core of Apple's fortune, may have felt it had more to lose than win because rival Android phones a popular app lacked offering.
Google has its Maps app for iPhone, in the wake of complaints about Apple software.
Apple controversially replaced search giant mapping service with own when it released its latest device, iPhone 5. The move was widely criticized for many errors were found in the search Apple Maps results.
Google's app introduces features that were previously limited to Android devices. One analyst said it would prove popular, but added that Nokia is still a challenge.
The companies are partly motivated by a desire to data automatically generated by mobile phones using their software, but also as private users to collect feedback. This allows them to fine tune their services and the accuracy of features such as traffic status updates to improve.
Android's advantage
Google has introduced features that were not available in previous iPhone app include:
1. Voice guided turn-by-turn directions, estimated travel times.
2. Indoor panoramic pictures of the buildings that have signed up for Street View Business Photos service
3. 3D representations of the contours of buildings that can be seen from different perspectives
4. Vector-based graphics based on mathematical lines and points instead of predefined bitmap graphics, making it faster to get in and out in a field.
Among the facilities iPhone app is missing from Google, which is present in the Android equivalent of the cards, the ability to download maps for offline viewing and voice search. But over time, said project manager Kai Hansen BBC that what happens on one platform should be on the other side.
"The goal is obviously to make it as uniform and consistent an experience as possible," he said.
Ground Truth
Net Software A dedicated Apple still has an edge that is the integration of Flyover interactive photo-realistic views of selected cities using 3D-rendered graphics cards app provides.
Google offers a similar feature in Google Earth, which is being promoted in the main map app, but with the transition to a separate program. But for many users. The main function of the level of accuracy offered by Google
Since 2008, the company Ground Truth Project mashed together licensed data with information from a fleet of Street View cars and bicycles.
Apple also wants to improve its own data through user feedback, but with less risk to work as iPhone users to switch to another product. There was speculation Apple, Google app rejection of his shop because of this.
But because sales of the iPhone is the core of Apple's fortune, may have felt it had more to lose than win because rival Android phones a popular app lacked offering.
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