Apple map was warned by Australian police

Many people already knows that Apple has replaced preinstalled map in Iphone from Google based map to their own map last September. Regarding this change, there seems to be political decision inside Apple by considering to implement own services on their map because Google refused to provide requests from the Apple.

When they released new Iphone, many people complained about quality of the Apple's own map because the service is out of question. The map provide wrong places for users. 

It's not a minor bug but a major bug at many places. Providing correct places is the most important roles required for maps. Many people wondered how they could release their own map with many bugs. 

Last week, terrible incidents were eventually reported in Australia because of Apple map. Some people planed to go some town but it was wrongly located in a national park in the Apple map, and the map navigated them there and they got lost there finally. The problem was that it is a national park so there is no light at night, and there is no water supply, and temperature goes up and down largely, so they could die there.

The cases mentioned above are rather extreme cases, but similar things can happen anywhere because many people relied on Iphone instead of GPS so far because Google map provides very good quality servies. For example, when my friend visits the bay area for business trips from Japan, he used iphone for GPS navigation.

I hope that the Apple updates it to make it better services.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/10/apple-maps-australia-error/1759991/