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Entries Published On June, 2015

Apple Confirms Vans are for Maps Data Improvement – Discloses Future Locations

Apple, in a path eerily similar to the path that Google took during their first years of on-line mapping, has publicly acknowledged that their vans are being used to supplement their Maps data. Google Maps was first rolled out in February of 2005 and  started their StreetView program in May, 2007 in  only five cities (Denver, Las Vegas, …

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