Breaking news: Maps... is still broken - here's the workaround
(All About Windows Phone)

Hold on... News? NEWS? It`s not really, and I`m in severe danger of abusing my position at AAWP just to rant at Microsoft. But in this case they deserve it. One of the central first party applications is broken and I`ve run out of other ways to bring this to the world`s attention. [Update: we now have a workaround!]