[gniv]

From the article:

  I think it is a text book example of the main difference in DNA between Google and Apple:

    Google is all about crowdsourcing.
    Apple is all about curation.

But how does Apple scale discovering new places without crowdsourcing? Relying on business owners is not enough to have decent coverage.

[mleo]

There are 3rd party data providers like Yext that can syndicate the data to different location services customers. Businesses can create and update in Yext and then data gets updated by the location services. If a location services company sources data from multiple independent locations providers such as Yext, Four Square, Yelp, web scraping it can get a profile that a place exists.

[HnUser12]

Apple now allows regular users to add new places to maps but it looks like they have a review process. I added a park and they didn’t accept my report until I added photos of the park sign board.

[theoldlove]

Yeah I don’t buy the premise of the article. Both google and apple accept crowd-sourced places after a review. Google Maps is the big player so it gets more spam attacks, but I don’t think the processes for crowdsourced places are very different between the two.

Description of how to add a place to apple here: https://www.reddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/gruew8/comment/f...