Navigating New York's elaborate braid of transit is not any easier without Google Maps. Above, Grand Central Station at rush hour. Photo by Matt Kroneberger. Welcome to Mapping Mobility, our recurring series on innovative cartography in the public space. We'll highlight innovation and stories about the conceptual urban space and how we navigate it with humanity's most essential mobility tool. The recent release of Apple's severely flawed iOS 6 Maps application has led to disdain and mockery across the internet, amid shock that the usually forward-thinking company released such a low-grade navigation tool rather than maintaining its relationship with the well-developed Google Maps application. The Apple Maps app has led many users to avoid the system upgrade, and others to report flawed directions; for example, Manoush Zomorodi of WNYC tweeted, "Apple maps doesn't know difference between Broadway and W. Broadway. So obviously not a #newyorker." The issue with Apple's Maps app is not a software design, but rather a lack of understanding about the importance of accurate, intuitive tools to urban mobility. Nearly half of all urban dwellers own smartphones (according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project), and Apple has essentially provided an unusable piece of software for this market. New Yorkers, and residents of all major cities, thrive on the flexibility of mobility, hopping seamlessly between subway, buses, taxis, bicycles and feet, much of it powered by the information in their smartphones about schedules, stop locations, safest routes, and calories burned. Information and transportation are so intricately