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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: Apple maps on Raspberry Pi?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:49:03 +0000
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:21:07 +0000
mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

> On 22/03/2024 08:43, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:04:25 +0000
> > mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> They are 100% accurate, any errors come from the user holding the
> >> device wrong.
> > 
> > 	Do they not contain mapmaker's copyright traps ? I'd expect
> > that on everything except open street map.
> > 
> Sorry Steve, I was parodying the late Jesus Jobs and his iPhone antenna 
> design screw up.

<grin>

> Does anyone really think they have not been heavily improved in the last 
> 12 years?

	Last time I used Apple Maps as a splat nav I found it to be
sufficiently accurate for the wbo and to provide better turn-by-turn than
google, identifying turns by features - roundabout, T-junction, lights .. -
where google just gives distances.

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