If you spot one just follow it for an entire day, wont be long before some tech blog is asking out "This mysterious car stalking an Apple Maps Van"
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If you spot one just follow it for an entire day, wont be long before some tech blog is asking out "This mysterious car stalking an Apple Maps Van"
And Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire (where hurricanes hardly ever happen), though most have no idea where to find them on a map.
What would count as surpassing? Teleporting you to any address you type in?
As long as the directions are correct, with traffic and alerts I am good. Which has been been the case for me with Apple maps.
As long as the directions are correct, with traffic and alerts I am good. Which has been been the case for me with Apple maps.
Not really. United Kingdom has about 400,000 miles of roads. A driver and co-pilot can easily to 20,000 miles a year. That's 20 full time employees for a year.
If you think that's a long time, consider that all the street photos that Google has today are one year old and often very outdated when that year is over, so Google has to do exactly the same work.
In the United Kingdom, I'd say that Apple Maps is doing quite well compared to Google Maps. Each one is ahead in some areas, so for planning a recent holiday in an area that I don't know at all I used both side by side, but Apple Maps was certainly ahead in some areas.
Apart from that, the locations that you read about in the UK were the ones planned for July. I'm sure they will go to different places in August, and in September, and so on, and Google must make the exact same investment not to fall behind. You know, maps are not just a matter of "catching up". Maps are an area where you can lose the lead very quickly, and Google has already done that in some areas.
- The Forest of Dean where Harry and his pals hid out from You Know Who.
- Salisbury, where they have no idea what Salisbury Steak is.
- Stonehenge, a pile of rocks from National Lampoon's European Vacation and an episode of Doctor Who.
- Worcester, home of Worcester sauce (which Americans call Worcestershire sauce, because no one can pronounce it anyway unless they live in Massachusetts).
+ Cornwall, where a field of corn grows next to a wall, whence one Bonnie Prince Charlie hid out in the '45 rebellion.
Because they are still selling the Apple ][ in Solihull and some people may of at least have some idea we're London is, if were lucky?
So i'm thinking that this is a clever ruse for an eventual Apple driverless car. Sure it improves apple maps but definitely looks like the vans have got much more going on than simple street view gear.
Im seeing lidar and other optical sensors on this rig which leads me to believe that this is much more than just apple maps .... anyone...?
The alleged Lidar in above image sure looks similar to Velodyne's HDL-32E (recently acquired by Ford)
Im seeing lidar and other optical sensors on this rig which leads me to believe that this is much more than just apple maps .... anyone...?
The alleged Lidar in above image sure looks similar to Velodyne's HDL-32E (recently acquired by Ford)
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The thing on the tyres is a wheel encoder which gives more accurate "ground truth" mixed in with the GPS etc for more accurate mapping of roads.