“Apple Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its Maps app in Europe to help users charge their electric vehicles or find bike rental hub,” Nate Lanxon reports for Bloomberg.
“The company has added the locations of the U.K.’s electric vehicle charging stations by incorporating data from Munich-based Cirrantic’s Moovility service, which lists re-juicing points for cars made by Tesla and Nissan, among others,” Lanxon reports. “It has also added public bicycle rental and drop-off points to maps of London, New York and Paris in a catch-up to long-time mobile navigation leader Google, which has listed such stations in multiple countries for some time.”
“Apple introduced electric vehicle charging points in Maps in the U.S. in December,” Lanxon reports. “According to data compiled by Zap-Map, there are just under 4,400 locations in Britain for recharging an electric vehicle. More than 3,000 of these will now be marked in Apple Maps. To identify these, Apple is using live data provided by Munich-based Cirrantic GmbH, a mobility services company founded in 2014, and pinpointing EV charge points on a map. Google lists charging points globally but doesn’t explicitly label them with easily identifiable icons.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yet another in the myriad ways that Apple Maps beats rivals.
I still prefer Mapquest. AM sucks hard.
It might be slightly more useful if they would focus on street names, train stations, bus stations and tram stops. Never a Google fan but Apple maps is useless in Spain. I switched to google maps. Just for fun I searched for the nearest tram stop here in Murcia. Apple found one, an hour’s walk away. Google found all 8 stops that were less than 30 mins walk away. Most often Apple will decide the street you want is in another city.
Until Apple put people on the ground in Europe they will never fix Apple maps. It’s probably a major reason why Europe remains so ardently Pro-Android.
+1
no, +100
exactly the same same in Germany.
I’m not using Google maps but “Scout”. With AM alone you’re lost, sorry to say that but it’s true.
repeat:
Until Apple put people on the ground in Europe they will never fix Apple maps. It’s probably a major reason why Europe remains so ardently Pro-Android.