If you have been enjoying using the new Siri intelligent personal assistant that comes as part of iOS 5 on the new Apple iPhone 4S. You will have already discovered if you live outside of the United States that there are certain restrictions in place when you try to perform either a local business search or asking to provide directions on your map.
At the moment Apple’s new Siri intelligent personal assistant, which is accessible via voice commands doesn’t provide local search data or map directions unless you are in the United States. However local search and maps support has now been listed on the Apple website in their FAQ section to be arriving sometime in 2012.