{"id":52359,"date":"2012-06-11T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52359"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T08:40:53","slug":"new-apple-maps-app-drops-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/52359-new-apple-maps-app-drops-google.html","title":{"rendered":"New Apple Maps app drops Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> has built a new Maps application \u201cfrom the ground up\u201d for its range of iPad, iPod, and iPhone devices.<\/p>\n

This confirms rumours that suggested Apple would eschew Google<\/a> Maps in favour of its own in-house system.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Apple\u2019s Worldwide Developer Conference on 11 June 2012, Senior VP of software engineering at Apple, Craig Federighi<\/a>, explained that part of of Maps is local search.<\/p>\n

Local search is a feature used by the iOS voice recognition system, Siri, to find locations nearest to you when making queries such as \u201cFind a good restaurant\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Federighi, they have already \u201cingested\u201d more than 100 million business listings and are also building a traffic service.<\/p>\n

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Maps - iOS 6<\/p><\/div>\n

This traffic service would use \u201canonymous, realtime\u201d data from iOS users. Apple\u2019s new Maps app will also get turn-by-turn navigation, Federighi said.<\/p>\n

Federighi went on to unveil 3D maps support for their new app that was shown to work similarly to that on offer from Google. If you zoom in far enough, a 3D representation of the environment appears.<\/p>\n

While building Maps, Apple realised that the best transit apps for metros, hiking, biking are coming from our developers, Federighi said.<\/p>\n

Rather than building their own transit feature into the new Maps app, Federighi said that Apple will integrate, feature and promote the transit apps of third-party developers from within the new Maps.<\/p>\n

The new Maps app from Apple is set to ship with iOS 6, which Federighi said would be out \u201cthis fall\u201d (from September to November 2012).<\/p>\n

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