On: Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads

[joeblau]

That's actually the tradeoff I'm making. The street I live on isn't even in Apple maps (I've filed a ticket), but I'm willing to use it for that tradeoff. Google is definitely collecting way more information and seems to be able to create higher quality maps a lot faster, but there is the trade off of being inundated with ads.

[johneth → joeblau]

Is your street on OpenStreetMap? As I understand it, Apple takes OSM data, so if it's not currently on OpenStreetMap, you could add it.

[Doctor_Fegg → johneth]

Apple uses OSM data in a few countries, but for most of the developed world I believe they use TomTom data (formerly TeleAtlas).