Can I set Google Maps to be the default map app?

OK, I've had enough.  I thought I could live with the quirks of Apple Maps, but the other day, I was trying to get directions from Reagan airport to my hotel in DC. Although the app correcty located me at the airport, it insisted on starting the directions from *a golf course on the other side of the Potomac*.  Seriously?  This wasn't a tiny mistake.  It couldn't figure out a major airport in a major US city.  That was the last straw.
I downloaded the Google Map app, and it was wonderful.  Not only did it (of course) give me the correct directions, but it even talked to me (I have an iPhone 4, which Apple has deemed unworthy of turn by turn directions).
Is there a way to make Google Maps my default Map app? so that when the OS recognizes something as an address it opens that instead of Apple Maps?

What on earth is wrong with Apple??  The ENTIRE REASON I MADE MY ORIGINAL PURCHASE WAS GOOGLE MAPS. The arrogance of they know better than the folks using their product is astonishing.  I don't care what the articles say, this map debacle is killing potential iPhone sales.  If they will not support MY NEEDS, I'll abandon my investment in applications as the important ones use Google maps and will be worthless anyhow.  Already applications I want demand iOS 6 which I refuse to download.  This phone will become an iPod and I will never again trust apple with my future.  This is not the first time apple has decided for me.  It's going to be the last decision you make for me.  Trust.

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