Culture
How Citymaps Could Make Yelp Obsolete
The newly global mapping app shows destinations in their full urban context.
In the land of listings apps, the end of Yelp's reign could not come sooner.
Yelp's geolocated catalog of nearby restaurants and destinations is useful, but only if you trust the opinions of the self-selecting group that chooses to rate, comment, and publish illustrated essay collections there, or those businesses who've paid for prominence. As for its navigation tool, it's driven by Apple Maps, whose data continues to be awful.