Apple has yet to roll out any indoor mapping features in Japan so finding  the correct route to a train or subway station is a challenge. Directions always steer you to the little station icon on the map which is almost never the station entrance. Google has had indoor mapping […]

Anick Jesdanun’s Associated Press piece on Apple Maps has been making the tech blog rounds this week. The best take is Nick Heer’s Pixel Envy Apple seems to have improved their mapping technology in Canada, the U.S., and China, but I’m not sure about the rest of the world. It’s […]

Now that iOS 9 has been out for a month, let’s compare the updated Apple Maps with two of the most popular iOS mapping apps here in Japan: Google Maps and Yahoo Japan Maps. We’ll compare four categories: data quality for accuracy and detail, cartography for ‘at a glance’ comprehension […]