With the launch of the latest Apple iPad on Wednesday, March 7, the tech giant also released another stunning application in the form of the latest iPhoto. However, Apple fans were startled to find that the latest iOS from Apple had dropped Google Map images and uses instead its own App maps instead for iPhotos. This means that everyone who uses the location feature of the new app will surprisingly realize that map tiles look quite different than the ones previously used from Google Maps.

The new maps that iOS system uses were generated by Apple using data from OpenStreetMap or OSM, a crowd-sourced mapping platform. However, on a blog post released last week by the OSM Foundation, maps used in the latest Apple devices date from April 2010, so there could be slight differences from the present.

Needless to say, Apple is trying to estrange itself from as many Google apps as possible, in its market war against Google’s Android system. The dropping of Google Maps is not entirely out of the blue, however, since in the past few years, Apple invested heavily in the acquisition of mapping companies such as Placebase in 2000 or Poly9 in 2010. More recently, in last October, Apple also bought the C3 Technologies, a mapping company specializing in 3D maps.

However, Apple is not the only one determined to dispatch Google Maps. Last week, Foursquare said it is also giving up Google’s application and will from now on use maps created by MapBox, also using data from OSM.