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Apple announced today that it’s revamping the Maps application on iOS devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod touch—introducing a lot of showy new features like…

 

Earlier this week I posted an article that was skeptical about Apple’s foray into online mapping that essentially said that Apple could not replace Google.  This article focuses on the differences in Apples mapping strategy–primarily shifting digital mapping for raster based data to vector data.  This is a perfect example to show GIS students the relevance of how data is stored. 

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