Ideally, yes, having two or three different sources would be great. The more, the better! Theoretically, Apple are already doing this, yet they seem to give a strong preference to TomTom data and ignore the rest. Officially TomTom update their maps four times a year, but in my illustrated case they failed to spot a significant road layout change that happened over a year ago.
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Ideally, yes, having two or three different sources would be great. The more, the better! Theoretically, Apple are already doing this, yet they seem to give a strong preference to TomTom data and ignore the rest. Officially TomTom update their maps four times a year, but in my illustrated case they failed to spot a significant road layout change that happened over a year ago.
I think they should BUY TomTom maps. Just buy they current state and continue to develop on their on, under their own brand, etc.
Just buy those current maps for total use, editing, reselling, etc. and build on them.
They could develop own reporting tools for the community, opt-in option to track your navigation use + some recording, etc. and gather a huge database.
Might work, even though in my example above it was TomTom and their TeleAtlas back-end having an issue. The other four mapping solutions showed the correct road layout. Then, again, HERE We Go app was suggesting yesterday I take a small one way road, going against the traffic, whereas Apple Maps correctly showed it as a one-way road. So I still believe Apple should use as many reliable data sources as possible, overlying them with their pretty UI. Just imagine if they could use campyguy’s suggested super-accurate INRIX data at the back-end and Apple’s own front-end!
I think any effort would be nice.
Just see the example with cars:
https://maps.apple.com/vehicles/
I don't see any cars for Eastern Europe or Central Europe (depends on the taxonomy).
Hiring more people for the rest of the Europe should be their priority.
While they will present something like Street View for US, Google in Europe will be again 10000 steps ahead.
Agreed with any effort would be nice sentiment. I still think that before introducing any groundbreaking stuff coming up of those Apple vehicles’ rides, they should get some reliable back-end road-layout data. You know, just to turn at the right time, not necessarily seeing it in a funky 3D mode.
I didn't mean the clunky 3D mode.Agreed with any effort would be nice sentiment. I still think that before introducing any groundbreaking stuff coming up of those Apple vehicles’ rides, they should get some reliable back-end road-layout data. You know, just to turn at the right time, not necessarily seeing it in a funky 3D mode.
Thanks to driving on them, they would have accurate coordinates of every km, road-layout data with ROAD quality, dirt/sand/asphalt, so they could navigate even more accurate, with "pleasure and comfortable" roads vs. quick, hard, and dirty/muddy roads, just close, with less km, etc.
Signs with speed limits, right of way, limitations.
How else Apple can have those data without buying them again from TomTom whose accuracy is spotty and the reason of our prior problems.