Apple Maps improving?

It is my impression that Apple Maps has improved a lot since it was first launched. I have been using it exclusively for the last couple of months with no problems at all (I live in the U.S.). Out of curiosity, I compared a couple of addresses in Egypt and Saudi Arabia that I am familiar with, with Google. In one, they were about the same. In the other, Apple was much closer than Google.

Has anyone else noticed big improvements?

George