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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps & Apple Maps (justinobeirne.com)

over 7 years ago from Eric Liang, Product design intern at Facebook

4 comments

Zoltán Hosszú, over 7 years ago
4 points
Gareth Price, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )
As a scientist, it sure would have been nice to have some statistical tests done on this data. I expect that most of his "Apple shows X more than Google" are actually not significant. I hope he releases all the data for someone to analyse.
That being said, this is well written and insightful.
2 points
- Joe Shoop, over 7 years ago
  Yeah, it would be cool to see comparisons of user activity for common map tasks between the two. The fact that google has fewer labels is probably very intentional.
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  - Charles Morissette-P., over 7 years ago
    I think this would answer some of your questions. http://www.justinobeirne.com/essay/what-happened-to-google-maps
    As time went on, Google used less labels because people will look at the roads moreso than the cities.
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