Apple Maps Errors Send Japanese to Homegrown App (Published 2012)

TOKYO — When Hikarie, Tokyo’s new must-visit shopping destination, opened in April, it was already old news on Mapion’s map application. An elite team at the company, which is based here, had marked the glass tower a year earlier, keeping the service a step ahead in this fast-changing city. Mapion is one of Japan’s homegrown companies that is benefiting from Apple’s maps debacle, which has left lo

[kochizufan]

OSMデータのせいなん？そんな感じじゃないけど。

[deeeet]

"In Japan, most streets do not have names, and house numbers are often assigned by order of registration, not location"

[nilab]

Apple Maps Errors Send Japanese to Homegrown App - NYTimes.com

[siiko]

日本国内の地図のみを配信するマピオンが、MapionとしてNYタイムズに掲載されたのは快挙。

[kozy4324]

Mr. Yamagishi said. “It goes to show how much time and effort it takes to build a map for somewhere like Japan.”