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Apple's Maps team reportedly contacting businesses to verify user-submitted data

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/apples-maps-team-reportedly-contacting-businesses-verify-user-submitted-address-data' title="Apple's Maps team reportedly contacting businesses to verify user-submitted data"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/field/image/2014/06/siri_point_of_interest_iphone_5s_hero.jpg?itok=lRRY4sem' />[/url]</p> <p>Apple is reportedly reaching out to businesses to verify address data that has been marked as incorrect in the Maps (http://www.imore.com/maps-iphone-ipad) app's "Report a Problem" feature. <!--break-->According to a post on Reddit:</p>

<p>A 408 number called me from Apple Maps and let me know that a user reported my business address as incorrect. They still had my old address that was listed on Yelp so I gave them the new one. I asked when I should expect it to be updated on Apple Maps and the lady said, "We don't have an exact timeline for updates but it should be within the next week."</p> <p>It appears that Apple pulled from Yelp awhile ago but it doesn't actually sync the addresses and other information.</p> <p>Still couldn't believe that they called me to fix up the listing - how awesome.</p>

<p>At this stage, it is unclear if the Maps team is contacting other points of interests. Considering the sheer amount of requests that the Maps team likely gets, a turnaround time of one week sounds impressive. The move is indicative of a larger push by Apple to update the Maps app with the latest data, which includes inculcating user-submitted corrections.</p> <p>What about you guys? Are you seeing more accurate listings in Maps?</p> <p>Source: Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2aglej/i_just_received_a_call_from_the_apple_maps_team/)</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-25696"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/3c6d0645/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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