Apple's Maps Connect now available for Canadian small businesses

Apple has announced that Canadian business owners will be able to add their business location and information to Apple Maps via an Apple Maps Connect service. Ideal for entrepreneurs and small businesses who want to make their location, store hours and other information easy to find on Apple Maps.

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Apple adds more Flyover locations to Maps

Apple recently updated its Maps app to add more locations to the Maps Flyover feature for iOS and OS X. This feature lets you take a closer, more three-dimensional look at areas. Apple added three new areas in France including Avignon, Biarritz, and Perpignan; two landmarks in Arizona including the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater; as well as Devil’s Tower in Wyoming; Dunedin in New Zealand; Royal Gorge in Arkansas; and Visby in Sweden.

Source: MacRumors

Apple enlisting users help to develop Maps

Apple isn’t giving up Maps just yet. And they’re looking for help to compete with the more established Google Maps. The new job posting is looking for people to help improve the service, including the integration of Siri and Passbook. It says they need someone to build out “community services,” which can mean they are developing the “Report a Problem” feature. The new engineer will also be “working on the frameworks and plugins that enable Maps to integrate deeply and seamlessly with parts of the system such as Siri and Passbook, to extend and enhance the feedback experience.” We can only speculate what Apple plans to do so we have to wait and see what Apple has planned for its Maps app.

Source: Apple | Via: SlashGear

Nokia's Here Maps app now available for iOS

Need advanced maps and direction on iOS, well it's Nokia to the rescue. Their new Here  free maps app is now available for iOS and brings offline caching and walking directions. 

"Maps are hard to get right - but location is revolutionizing how we use technology to engage with the real world," said Nokia's Executive Vice President of Location & Commerce Michael Halbherr, who is responsible for Here. "That's why we have been investing and will continue to invest in building the world's most powerful location offering, one that is unlike anything in the market today." Hit jump for the full feature set of Here.

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