While Look Around is very cool in NYC where I live, in MOST of the country, I get street views in Google Maps while I don't even get a satellite image from the fruit.
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Apple Maps Expands 3D Street View Feature to Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
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Seems pretty similar to me. Apple version scrolls around smoother but is slower. Google version you can zip around and get places faster but it's janky and a little ugly.
Good start for Apple but obviously the appeal of something like this goes to Google where basically the entire country (just speaking on US here) is covered.
Good start for Apple but obviously the appeal of something like this goes to Google where basically the entire country (just speaking on US here) is covered.
It'll eventually be available wherever there are Apple Maps. Their cars and even portable backpack mapping gear capture 360º images for use in Look Around as well as to identify store signs and address numbers on buildings to cross reference their data and accurately pinpoint the location of places of interest and addresses.
So, yes. I'm sure Baltimore will have it sooner rather than later as I bet the United States is an Apple Maps priority.
Hey, give us your address and we can all take a look, buddy...😄🤣🙃
Seriously, though, that is cool. I hope to see the updated maps launch in Irleand this year, but I suspect the Look Around feature will not arrive where I live for a loooooong time afterwards (very rural!). Would be extremely happy to be wrong, of course.
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This is a fantastic new feature. Have to say I am disappointed that Apple is playing out the cliché by starting on both coasts and abandoning the middle of the country.
Now and then I try to use Maps but it just doesn't work
Question for everyone here - how do I get Maps to navigate? I was using it on a bike in Indonesia, and the map just wouldn't update, it doesn't give any instructions, it doesn't show on the lock screen (instead the phone turns off and I have to awkwardly turn it on again to see the map...
It's basically not working at all.
Does it need to be connected to power to work properly? Or a hands free set?
So I keep giving all my data to Google. Their maps work. I can ride the bike with headphones, I get proper navigation instructions, the phone doesn't turn off (ahem).
I don't understand how these really basic basics don't work on Maps?!
Question for everyone here - how do I get Maps to navigate? I was using it on a bike in Indonesia, and the map just wouldn't update, it doesn't give any instructions, it doesn't show on the lock screen (instead the phone turns off and I have to awkwardly turn it on again to see the map...
It's basically not working at all.
Does it need to be connected to power to work properly? Or a hands free set?
So I keep giving all my data to Google. Their maps work. I can ride the bike with headphones, I get proper navigation instructions, the phone doesn't turn off (ahem).
I don't understand how these really basic basics don't work on Maps?!
One constant with Apple Maps is how glacial everything is. I am of the firm belief that Apple only employs a geriatric, a blind man and his seeing eye dog to update Apple Maps. How long has this feature been available, and how many cities is it working in? And what about overseas?
Crickets.
Commit Apple, do it properly, or stop waisting resources.
Crickets.
Commit Apple, do it properly, or stop waisting resources.
I don't have any of the problems you mention - Apple Maps gives turn-by-turn directions, updates as I move, works on the lock screen, and works plugged in or running on just the iPhone's internal battery. Navigation is as easy as "hey Siri, give me directions to work" (to see which freeway is better today). And all of this has worked through numerous major versions of iOS.
On Apple's iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability page, Indonesia is listed for Maps, and directions, but not for turn-by-turn navigation.
Sorry Apple.. Everyone is in the mapping-space, but there is always one clear winner..
(....and its not you..
) When Look Around comes to Australia, wake me up..
The technology is good, and gives Apple that edge over Google, but it fails by not being in more places.
(....and its not you..
) When Look Around comes to Australia, wake me up..The technology is good, and gives Apple that edge over Google, but it fails by not being in more places.
It‘s a practical decision - that’s where the population is higher. Get the feature to more people sooner that way. They’ll get the rest of the country before too long.
Does Google have Streetview in small towns? Not being argumentative, just never looked.
I think they do. I actually live in a small city (about 350k), and google street view has been around for a long time here. I know Apple will get around to us eventually. 😄
That’s simply not true. Other than New York City and Los Angeles, the Chicagoland area has a higher population than any of the other areas that the new Maps features have rolled out in. It’s also the third largest media market and second largest financial market.
Ummm...so you just proved his point....”other than NYC and Los Angeles”....
Chicago as well as the rest of the country is coming. Even with automated censoring software, a live person has to check every single image...and then again (at least) to make sure nothing unwanted has made it through.
Once major cities are completed, the rest of the country should be released at an incredible rate.
For all of those people asking, “will they show my street” or “when is my neighborhood going to be in Look Around?” It WILL be. People obviously want more urban areas with restaurants/businesses in Look Around first before it becomes available for some podunk farm house in the middle of Oklahoma.