No two ways about. Apple's new maps app just wasn't ready for prime time. Here is yet another catalog of "Amazing iOS 6 Maps" that are incredibly flawed. It was so bad that the CEO has apologized.
But the real lesson here is that maps aren't as easy as they look.
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- Director of SEBS General Honors Program and Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at tulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu Research online at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-9190 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lOLIQZ8AAAAJ&hl=en https://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/geohealth/
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