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In recent years the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), bought at least 3 companies that specialize in mapping and generating systems such as Apple/Google Maps, and the company's efforts to improve its services continue. It seems like the Americans they purchased recently and Locationary, a company that specializes in managing the database with location information, updating the information in the database, but also combining duplicate information and deleting old ones. Locationary's technology allowed the development of a platform similar to Wikipedia, only that it contains information about businesses from all over the world and constantly updates it.
It uses crowdsourcing and a federated data exchange platform called Saturn to collect, merge and continuously verify a massive database of information on local businesses around the world, solving one of location's biggest problems: out-of-date information. Not only does Locationary ensure that business listing data is positionally accurate (IE: the restaurant I searched for is where Apple said it would be), it ensures that it is temporally accurate as well (IE: the restaurant I searched for is still open for business and not closed for renovation or shuttered entirely).
Based on a system called Saturn, Locationary constantly collects data and analyzes it, so that when you are looking for a restaurant, for example, you will immediately find out where it is, but also if it is still open. Of course, we are talking about a company based in Canada that collects relevant data from important countries, and in Romania there probably won't be much use for it. Even so, providing updated information would be a big, big advantage for Apple Maps and could bring Apple back into the fold of users, it remains to be seen when everything can be implemented in iOS.
