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 […]

Joe Mcgauley says you should ditch Google Maps for Apple Maps but neglects to mention this is a sane choice only in New York City. I dare him to try that […]

  After the December 17 false start for Apple Maps Nearby Search in Japan, there are recent signs that a real service launch could be approaching. When entering a Japanese […]