Category Archives: News

Apple Maps Marketing’s #1 reader, Michael G., just notified me that Apple Maps has made its first satellite imagery update in three years. Here’s Michael’s take: “Thought you might want to share with your readers that Apple is starting to update their Satellite imagery in select areas. The Satellite imagery is as recent as from […]

        In my earlier post today I missed that there is an even newer Apple Maps Acknowledgement Page at http://gspe21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-6.html. It now lists Das Örtliche, a German Yellow Pages company, as a business listings data supplier. Ach du lieber!  

      In November 2014, we discovered that Apple Maps was testing taking business listings feeds from a number of local search technology and marketing companies. Earlier this year we reported that Yext was the only company from the list that was likely able to publish its clients’ business listings data to Apple Maps. […]

Apple says Apple Maps used on iOS 3.5X more than "the next leading mapping app" (Google) #WWDC — Greg Sterling (@gsterling) June 8, 2015 Comscore released its Smartphone Subscriber Market Share April 2015 report today. If this data is correct, Apple Maps is being used regularly by at least 61% of U.S. iPhone owners. That’s […]

            Last week Zac Hall reported on 9 To 5 Mac that the Apple Maps Acknowledgments page had been updated to include: Yellow Pages Turkey Navads e.Wego Yellow Pages Turkey is pretty straightforward – Turkish business listings. Navads appears to be a Yext-like service. Here’s how they describe it on […]

                  Quickly on the heels of adding data from TripAdvisor and Booking.com, Apple Maps now appears to be using information from Wikipedia, YellowPages Group of Canada and Dianping, China’s version of Yelp, to enhance the data from prominent points of interest (POIs). The profile above is for Burj […]

With the iOS 8.3 update released today, businesses can now claim their Apple Maps business listing via iOS devices . Here’s how it works: Search for the business in the Apple Maps app, click on the “i” icon next to the map pin to see the business’ profile. Then click on the “Report a Problem” […]

                Looks like Apple Maps is starting to roll out reviews from more sources attached to business profiles. I am surprised it has taken this long. I would not be surprised if by the end of the year we see a lot more data sources in the maps. […]

Yesterday, Apple Maps Connect started allowing businesses in Italy, Mexico & Switzerland to claim their profiles in Apple Maps.  Check it out:                           You can get the latest on how to get your business in Apple Maps by checking out our Apple Maps […]