Comments on: Apple Purchase of Placebase Confirmed: Goodbye Google Maps?

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[...] much has been said about Apple’s 2009 acquisition of online mapping service PlaceBace. At the time, rumors ran rampant that Apple would be replacing Google Maps on the iPhone, iPod and [...]

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By: Tech Industry News » Blog Archive » Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:01:21 +0000

[...] the search giant both with the creation of its own in-house Mapping team and, back in October, the acquisition of PlaceBase, a rival mapping service to Google [...]

By: Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means

Apple’s New Map Team Job: What It Really Means — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:01:37 +0000

[...] the search giant both with the creation of its own in-house Mapping team and, back in October, the acquisition of PlaceBase, a rival mapping service to Google [...]

By: Yup, Google Maps on the iPhone Shows Ads

Yup, Google Maps on the iPhone Shows Ads — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:23:40 +0000

[...] Maybe thats why Apple bought their own mapping company. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:25:06 +0000

Heh… Apple performed a seamless transition to Intel that didn’t break any legacy applications during the transition (thanks to Rosetta) years after OS X was created….and you think that swapping out the underlying Maps provider is something Apple forgot to code their SDK to handle? You must be joking.

To think that Apple didn’t plan for possibly using other Maps technology is pretty naive.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:23:04 +0000

See http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/findplace.html

then go back to the API – you don’t have to do anything with policy data you can do anything you would like just like Google maps it is an example…

API is here: http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/index.html

see all of the other examples – dare I say google it?

By: giovanni1975

giovanni1975 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:59:34 +0000

From what i see of the demo, this sort of information would be useful to such a tiny percentage of people. It’s general features for the layman equates to Google Maps’ offerings.
And I bet none of this policy data is available outside the US so what is the point?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:22:26 +0000

The Youtube app won’t be effected unless google blocks all safari users. It’s just streaming media in an app window. The Mapkit and Google API info above are something totally separate and work on a fundamental level of the iPhone SDK.