Apple Maps Begins Surveying Poland for 'Look Around'

[polyphenol]

So much duplication of effort going on. Hopefully one day, all the major map providers will have a data sharing agreement.

An awful lot of me agrees. But multi-sourcing of data has huge advantages when it comes to verification.

In the past, the specific highly detailed street map which included my house had the house numbers wrong. These maps were surveyed by the Ordnance Survey who served as the source for the majority of UK maps. Thus, pretty much every map which was sufficiently detailed would carry the same mistake.

I'd like to think that a combination of data sources - OpenStreetMap being one example for today - would far more likely raise a clash warning and see someone check. (Were I in the same position today, I'd flag the issue, but in those days, writing a physical letter seemed over the top for a small error.)

So, yes to data sharing but not if it results single sourcing.

 

[entropys]

It takes so long to rollout they will have to keep starting again

 

[PowerMacBook]

Scott Forstall was fired because of Maps, as far as I remember.
Oh boy, that was a great decision: Maps is really so much better now!
Still no biking roads in France? Look around is busy for years and is covering what cities exactly? Not even one country?
If there was a lack of money, well, I would understand, but for the richest company in the world?
How much more time do you want to take to get these features available for everybody?
I mean, in the meantime houses are build, buildings destroyed, etc. This is a never ending story, so you have to begin one day.
I don't like Google, but at least they get things done in a swifter way.
Looking at what is covered, "Cycling" and "Look Around" simply is a sad story:

 

[GrandFelix]

In Slovenia about one week ago. The driver took a nap and ate a sandwich 🙂

 

[PowerMacBook]

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In Slovenia about one week ago. The driver took a nap and ate a sandwich 🙂

with a German license plate?

 

[polyphenol]

with a German license plate?

The vehicle had made it from Japan or the USA, so toodling into Slovenia from Germany is next to nothing. And it might have been a curry wurst.

 

[GrandFelix]

I think they would not register a car in Slovenia to do just that. They do it for all EU countries with same cars.

 

[cupcakes2000]

with a German license plate?

Can drive anywhere in the EU with any number plate, just need to indicate country of origin with the county code on the car somewhere, or modern number plates have that built in as you can see.

 

[JippaLippa]

I hope Italy is going to be next.
I live here, but I'd love for people to be able to look at our wonderful cities via "look around"

 

[JippaLippa]

‘Look Around’ is about 12 years behind Google. I wish I could use it, but it isn’t available anyplace I’m going. Meanwhile Google has 3-4 years worth of images for 90% of the places I would use ‘Look Around’ or ‘Street View’.

Google has invested so much time and money with the google cars, I don't see any maps app catching up in the next 5 years.

That said I'm distancing from google as much as possible and for my average use (searching for places, directions and tradfic alerts) apple maps works fine.
Eventually apple maps will gain more features from google maps.

The biggest trouble with apple maps is that new features are being added incrementally and, at the moment, you have a radically different experience based on your location.
In big american cities you get up to date maps and all the features, here in Italy (for example) the maps are not 100% current and there's still comparatively less information about what's on the mapp, while on google maps you can see it all.

 

[polyphenol]

Google has invested so much time and money with the google cars, I don't see any maps app catching up in the next 5 years.

Where I live, Google Maps is about ten years out. Apple Maps is about two years out.

Google satellite is around one year out. Looks same as Google Earth.

Apple satellite is about two or three years out.

OpenStreetMap is about the same as Apple Maps.

HereWeGo is no more than a year out.

 

[grobik]

Could be years. My parents saw an Apple Maps vehicle by their house last summer even though they live in a smaller village. The feature is still not available here in The Netherlands, yet Apple seems to be covering the whole country already. Meaning they could very well be waiting until they get every part of the country mapped before release.

I’m in the US and saw an Apple Maps vehicle a few times in 2016 and still we have no look around. So it takes at least over 5 years.