Street View is not that useful. It's fine when you sit at a desk and try to browse the streets but it's not practical when you actually use for navigation. In term of sitting at the desk, I find fly over and 3D mapping on Apple map superior than street view. It gives me a true interactive experience instead of a static 2d point and click like street view.
I use it to confirm if the location is correct, which it isn't in more than 10% of my company's locations, which were stupidly based on postcodes instead of coordinates. Postcodes sometimes change, and some don't even exist anymore. Satellite view allows me to guess at a location, street view confirms it.
Apple maps probably doesn't even show the road, Google maps always does. I like the way that Apple maps works on the lock screen, and it has a nicer interface overall, but with so much data missing it's basically worthless to me. I try it every couple of months, to see if anything has changed, and then I go straight back to Google.
When I moved into a brand new house, I sent corrections to half a dozen mapping services. Google maps updated within a week. Open Street Map took 6 months. 2 years later, Apple, TomTom, Garmin, Here, and Co-Pilot still don't show my street. Of course, the leaky Android incident probably means that Google will now be as bad as the others.
Can it really be that hard? It's no secret my street exists. It's been on paper plans since 2008!
Aren't we all being watched by satellites which can recognise faces? How come they can't identify roads? ...or did Enemy of the State lie to me?
Car rumor!