TechnoSlab

This week, different sources indicated that Apple is about to launch it's own map service which would be much better than Google maps. It is also expected to sport exciting and unique features, maybe 3D maps too. Apple plans to kick Google maps out by launching a new official iOS app for the service probably with iPhone 6. We have yet to see Apple rolling out their own map service but in the meanwhile, people have found something interesting.
Try pointing your browser to maps.apple.com and see where it takes you to. Currently it redirects to maps.google.com which is what Apple's service will be competing with.
Apple may impose the map service on their user base but they will have a hard time trying to reach  non iOS users because Google maps is a well established and popular service and Google maps is available for almost all devices.

If you're planning to travel to an unfamiliar city, chances are that you look up Google maps to get a good idea of it.
To provide you an even more clearer picture of a place, Google has added weather to Google maps. This was a much awaited feature I think, I'm glad that it's finally made available to us. Thanks to Google's ever growing feature list.


Now this new feature can be accessed by clicking on the option "weather" available at the top right corner of Google map view. It not just displays current climatic conditions but, on further zooming, also display weather forecasts for the new five days making it even more useful for all those folks planning their future trips.

These forecasts and weather details are fetched from weather.com, that google is collaborating with.