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So the anti-poaching agreement with Google will now bite Apple right when they badly need current Google Maps staff?

It's the data silly - and if they are recruiting analysts that correct data manually or by writing scripts (per endtime's speculation) - $85K is believable.

But if they don't have complete data and they aren't running their own street view cars - how much would correcting existing data help in actually reaching parity with GMaps?

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Not if the anti-poaching agreement makes no specific mention about "CONTRACTING employees" of Google. If that is the case, then it's turkey shoot for Apple.

I was more thinking of regular Google maps employees that do more than just data collection/correction - Apple would benefit a lot from poaching them in absence of the anti-poaching agreement.

Wait, I thought the anti-poaching agreements are no longer in effect, per the Department of Justice's request in 2010? http://mashable.com/2010/09/24/doj-anticompetitive-employee-...

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