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Here Are All The Companies Apple Gets Its Mapping Data From (AAPL)

Steve Kovach

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Since Apple ditched Google Maps for its new iOS Map app, it now pulls all its data from a variety of other sources.

TomTom seems to be the biggest source for Apple's mapping data, but a look at Apple's list of data providers show several more.

Don't miss our screenshot walkthrough of the new Maps app for iOS 6 >

Here they are:

TomTom
Acxiom
AND.
CoreLogic Inc.
DigitalGlobe
DMTI
Getchee
Intermap
LeadDog
Localeze
MapData Sciences Pty LTD. Inc.
MDA Information Systems
Urban Mapping
Waze
Yelp
Department of Nautral Resources Canada
CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
Flickr
Geonames
GlobCover
NASA
OpenStreetMap
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Geological Survey
National Geospatial-intelligence Agency

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13 Jun 2012

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