Tag Archives: Maps

9to5Mac is reporting that Apple will indeed be moving away from Google Maps to in-house map technology with the introduction of iOS 6. This new mapping service will include 3D views. Remember, Apple bought mapping companies, Poly9 and Placebase a few years ago. Just last year, the Apple also bought …

One of the things I learned over the weekend was how much the iOS Maps app can actually cache. I had bought a measly 15 MB roaming data plan for a brief trip to New York City, but I found that the data was very quickly chewed up by iMessage, …

Google’s location-based social-networking application Latitude is now available on the iPhone platform, but not in a native app as one would expect. Rather, as a web app running in Mobile Safari, Latitude offers some of the same functionality you will find in the native Maps app. You can share your location and …

Today the long-awaited iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 firmware became available through iTunes, just as previous rumors had suggested. The new update includes everything we expected plus a little more. Street View is now a feature of the Maps application and this is something I was looking forward to. I had chance …