Apple Maps three times more likely to get you lost than Google Maps

How helpful is Apple Maps? Not very, according to a company that found Apple Maps is three times more likely to get someone lost than Google Maps.

Most generally regard Google Maps as the superior software, but the crowdsourcing company Crowdflower decided to take a look at the data and figure out how exactly the two softwares, and Bing, compare. Specifically, Crowdflower set out to answer how often each service will get you to the right location. To find out, the company took a look at directions to 1,000 businesses in the US and another 100 in the UK. The company used its resources to go to the website of each business and find the address listed. Crowdflower then went to each mapping service and searched the business name and the city it's in. The company was looking for two things: Does the mapping service give a result, and is the result accurate? In the first category, Google led the way in the U.S., finding 89% of the businesses. Bing followed with 79% and Apple Maps with 74%. For U.K. businesses, Google also got the best results with 91%, followed by Bing's 57% and Apple Maps with 47%.