Traffic has been missing in Apple Maps Japan all this time and driving in Tokyo without knowing traffic conditions is…. well let’s just say that it is unimaginable in a country where car navigation systems with real time traffic conditions are ubiquitous. Apple Maps Japan was pretty much useless for […]
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Apple Maps Japan is Dope? Nope
My site doesn’t get many hits from Reddit but I always check new incoming ones just to see what the conversation is. Reddit is a parallel universe. Sometimes it intersects with my reality, most of the time it’s a distant unfathomable body. The latest ripple is about Apple Maps Japan […]
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iOS 13 Apple Maps Japan: Move along folks there’s nothing to see here yet…
I’ve been wanting to write about iOS 13 Apple Maps Japan since beta 3, but the big marquee features that really matter, New Maps and Look Around, won’t be coming to Japan until very late in the iOS 13 release cycle. They’ll arrive just before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for […]
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Google Maps Japan Auto Landfill
Google Maps Japan continues its downhill slide to the bottom of the maps barrel. Now that Apple Maps Japan is serious about collecting quality map data, how strange it would be if Apple wins the upper hand. That would only happen if Apple hurries to sign on Zenrin, the very […]
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Tokyo Olympics Apple Maps: Death by Point of Interest
Apple tells Engadget Japan reporter Masaichi Honda that Apple Maps Japan will be ready for the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2020. Apple Maps will have robust indoor maps for tall buildings and underground station malls in Tokyo, and Real-time transit for better transit route searching and transit updates. […]