Redundant MapQuest Comes To iPhone
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It’s something that has been bugging me a bit. Is adding MapQuest to the iPhone merely redundant or instead are we going to see added functionality? Based on what I can see, it looks like a lot of cool functionality is being added.
But all of the cool new features in the world means little if the map providing capability is not up to snuff. Well that and the Google street view is difficult for others to others to even touch. Still, the feature list with MapQuest’s app is impressive.
At the end of the day, it will likely come down to who prefers what over the other. I like Google Maps, it’s what I am used to. Bundle this with having bad experiences with both Google and MapQuest in the past and clearly, this is a very interpretive issue.
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savedR
November 18th, 2009
at 11:01am
Oh, absolutely ditto on having bad experiences with both. It seems like Google is a lot less likely to fail me than Mapquest, but there has been at least one time in recent memory that I’ve had to go to Bing because they showed some back street that Gmaps didn’t.
And really, i don’t see that as a terrible thing, or as an unavoidable outcome, when you consider the shear amount of data a company has to maintain to provide any sort of accurate map at all. I feel like people need to just learn to check multiple maps every time and compare the results, maybe.
savedR
November 18th, 2009
at 11:06am
For that reason alone, it’d be a really good idea for iPhone users to go get the Mapquest app, and I wish MS had a Bing (or just Bing maps) app as well.