![]() But Apple decided to go its own way, why is that?įirst of all, Apple doesn’t like to take over big organizations. Investment from Apple would allow them to fill in coverage gaps in less developed countries. (a full list of data sources that Apple uses is available on the official acknowledgments page).Įveryone in the industry thought that the only way forward was a big acquisition of one of the global independent mapping data providers: TomTom or HERE. Additionally, the company uses multiple local data providers like Waze for Israel, or AND for some areas in Eastern Europe Most of the navigation layers in Apple Maps are based on TomTom’s data and OSM in countries where TomTom doesn’t have decent coverage. It showed that making maps is much more difficult than, one might imagine. The company stitched together spatial data from multiple vendors, and the overall effect was much below user expectations. When Apple launched its Maps back in 2012, it was a total failure (at least from a user perspective). ![]()
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