Old Maps vs. New Maps

Old Maps vs. New Maps:
Marco Tabini was thinking what I was thinking about Jason Matheson’s test of iOS 6 Maps against Ontario city and town names — that it would be useful to compare the results against iOS 5 with the Google-backed Maps:

As far as I can see, the data supports three conclusions:

1. Given our set of data, old Maps doesn’t fare that much better
   than new Maps.
2. There seems to be a significant difference in the way the two
   companies approach the task of returning search results, with
   Google doing whatever it takes to get any result out, while
   Apple seems to prefer accuracy above all.
3. In the end, this is not really a particularly useful test
   insofar as determining the accuracy of Maps. At best, we get to
   see how good Apple is as at finding things, but with targets as
   big as whole towns we’re unlikely to unearth any information
   that is really useful.

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