In message , at 00:00:33 on Mon, 5 Oct
2015, D A Stocks remarked:
With Uber you confirm the pickup and drop off points on a map, and
the search function is probably linked to Google so it will already
know most places.

That's no help if all I know is the name of a place, and can't locate
it on a map. If in a strange City it can be very difficult to
correlate random destinations with "points on a map".

A bit of digging on the web suggests Uber may tend to use Apple rather
than Google for their mapping.

Looking at my iPhone, where I live the maps are more up to date than
Google's, but they have significantly fewer 'landmarks' plotted.

It doesn't have the 'shared space' premises near the Oval that a charity
I work with moved to a year ago (either under the name of the building
nor the charity). That's somewhere I did have to look up on a map when
they moved there from WC2.

Of course, it might be in "The Knowledge" either.
--
Roland Perry