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So DDG will now use Apple’s data to find places? Please don’t. It should be the other way around.

Not even a month ago I made a search for a famous place in Lisbon (you know, big metropolitan area, capital of Portugal, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union) and Apple Maps didn’t even know it existed. Made the search in DDG and it found it, from where I had to copy the address and manually search for it in Maps.

Or I could’ve used Google Maps in one try, but I genuinely want DDG and Apple Maps to succeed so I keep trying. But please do use the best data of both, don’t replace one with the other.

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>best data of both

Isn't that basically just Google Maps? I thought Apple Maps' data was just a subset of Google Maps'.

What does Apple Maps do better? Genuinely curious.

It is, but without the desire to monetize your searches.

Yes, Google Maps is superior in my region, but as I mentioned, I’d rather support Apple and DDG. I do so for their stances on privacy, but also because usability-wise I do prefer Apple Maps.

> I thought Apple Maps' data was just a subset of Google Maps'

They must be different datasets; I doubt Google would want to give Apple any data, or data Apple would take it. I will mention that once I have found one place in Apple Maps that was not in Google Maps. It was a small hostel in Europe.

> I thought Apple Maps' data was just a subset of Google Maps

That hasn't ever been true with Apple Maps (to my knowledge, but absolutely not true now.)

Here's a bit on Apple Maps's current situation:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

Turn by turn notifications for walking directions. Surprisingly nice in combination with the watch. It just thumps my wrist when I'm supposed to turn.

That being said, I still search for places in google maps, and just plug the address into apple maps.

Is there a reason for keeping the specific place secret?

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