Apple Continues Rolling Out Indoor Maps of Airports in iOS 11

[kdarling]

Apple Maps now provides indoor maps for eight additional airports in the United States, as the new feature continues to roll out in iOS 11.

So basically, those of us with older devices that cannot run iOS 11+ will never get this?

The Android method of updating core apps separately from the OS version sure works a lot better for stuff like this.

 

[NomadicTy]

IAH, please. And just about every national capital's airport would be great.

 

[simonmet]

If rollout for this is anything like PT I’d expect maybe a couple of new countries added each year.

Might be useful by 2030.

 

[jarman92]

Since these are based in the cloud and not baked into the OS there was no pressing need to include them with the release.

All the more reason for these to have been available months ago. WWDC was in June, it’s now October and Apple has like a dozen locations available.

 

[lunarworks]

All the more reason for these to have been available months ago. WWDC was in June, it’s now October and Apple has like a dozen locations available.

They probably could do it a bit faster, but they're still rolling out transit maps too.

 

[truthertech]

All the more reason for these to have been available months ago. WWDC was in June, it’s now October and Apple has like a dozen locations available.

Remember, when it comes to mapping, Apple learned from its dismal start with Maps and is now intent on building the best mapping experience in the business. Hence, with Transit Directions and now Airports, Apple is building much better and more accurate maps than Google. Here's a great article that explains why Apple didn't simply turn on all cities at once for Transit like Google did by simply importing the 3rd party data that's available. Google has been criticized for the accuracy and usefulness of its transit directions. Apple decided to customize each region which requires a lot more expense and time, but the user experience is much better in the end. Same with airport mapping.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/07/why-apples-transit-maps-are-rolling-out-so-slowly

 

[eoblaed]

You are defending Apples slow response time? No excuse when they had years to play catch up
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100% agree I still won’t uae Apple maps because still to this day it has taken me to places that do no not exists or the wrong way. Google maps is still the king

I’m confused by this comment. You won’t use Apple Maps, but you use Apple Maps.

I know some folks had issues with it when it first rolled out ... 5 years ago, but I use it exclusively ... at home and during my frequent travels to both sides of the US. It’s yet to steer me wrong (see what I did there?).

People that say they never use Apple Maps because Apple Maps still sends them bogus places are fibbing somewhere. My guess is that they’re simply feeding the dated idea that Apple Maps sucks and don’t actually use it, but instead use one of the other mapping products. There’s lots of good mapping solutions out there, to be sure, and each have their strengths.

Interior mapping is cool, and it’s nice to see it coming to Apple Maps, but it’s certainly not a pain point for me (“XYZ airport isn’t mapped yet? That’s it! I’m going to Google Maps!”), and I enjoy the cross-device (and cross-app) integration that Apple Maps has built in, so it’s going to be my go-to mapping solution for the foreseeable future.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

PointInside did this about 300 years ago in far more locations on iOS 4. Whoop de doo.

Isn't PointInside dead?
[doublepost=1508422965][/doublepost]Airport designs and layout are copy written, and reproducing them isn't easy. I know that sounds absurd, but such is life.

I hope they include the security envelopes around separate terminals. I hate being in one terminal, and finding out that I have to leave one 'secure location' to enter another one to get to a good place to eat, or the only place to eat, depending on airport. Security lines to do that are a nightmare. Also having the 'club' in a different terminal is ridiculous, but it happens and is inconvenient.

Just tell me where the Maui Soft Taco place is... ;-)