Charlie Sorrel wrote a great piece for Fast Company: “Why Google Maps Shows You Different Borders, Depending On Where You Are”. We all use digital maps without thinking about the long term consequences […]

Now that my review of Nearby in Japan is out of the way, let’s search a few Japanese categories and see how well each of the “big three” (Apple Maps, Google Maps, […]

Every summer a friend sends me a box of onions from his farm in Sado. They are delicious but it took me years to learn not to leave them in […]

After the false start of Apple Maps Nearby Search in Japan last December, the service has finally been launched. As predicted earlier, the canned search service was rolled out in […]

Views, or layers, are a deeply useful feature of digital maps. With views you can easily get entirely different information of the same area. Some are useful like traffic and […]