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Apple Quietly Discontinued Flyover City Tours in Apple Maps
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While I tend to like Maps, the other day I was highly amused by its wrongness when I used it for directions to a parking garage in NYC. It directed me to the wrong end of the one-way street the garage was on and told me to park and walk the rest of the way to my destination…a parking garage.
Can’t say that I ever used it, not happy to see it go or anything but I understand
It was definitely a product of its time, since it was really only ever meant to showcase the new 3d buildings in Apple Maps and was never even extended past a few major cities around the world
It was definitely a product of its time, since it was really only ever meant to showcase the new 3d buildings in Apple Maps and was never even extended past a few major cities around the world
THIS! 🙌 Everything feels so disorganized. They need to stop making things “fun” and make them functional again.
My question: WHO APPROVED THESE CHANGES??
That's amazing. My question would be, When are they going to update Puebla, Mexico maps to be less than 10 years old? I like the interface better than Google Maps or Waze (I suspect I'm in a minority there), but it's literally unusable in the city unless you prefer to get lost regularly.
In June 2022 I saw a camera car driving down a main street in my town. It was clearly marked as working for Apple. Fast forward 3.5 years later and Look Around still isn’t available for my town. BTW I live in a top 30 metropolitan area by population. Come on Apple do better.
You can report this and get it fixed using the feature built into maps. I have reported a handful of things where I live and they did end up getting fixed, I think from memory they tended to get done in a couple of weeks.
Some of the things I reported and got fixed were my own home address location and a weird walking route which would send me on a diversion as if I was a car instead of just crossing the road.
I miss them too. I used to use them as kind of unscientific, impromptu system tests.
Back when the M1 MacBook Air came out, I ran one of these flyovers side-by-side on an M1 MacBook Air and an Intel i5 MacBook Air, both from 2020. The difference was insane. The Intel was choking and wheezing through the flyover tour, dropping frames like crazy. The M1 was running it almost perfectly and, of course, with no fan.
WOW, such an interesting benchmark I’ve never thought of! Aside from the obvious performance difference, I assume the M1 held like twice the battery percentage compared to the Intel one, right?
Oh I definitely noticed it was missing since first installing iOS and iPadOS 26 but I thought it had been moved somewhere in maps and I was too dumb to find it. Then I thought maybe it had been removed but there was no mention of it anywhere until 8 days ago.
Well, I did use CoconutBattery during this "test" and had it set to show the watts being pulled from the battery (one of my favorite uses for CB). IIRC, the M1 Air was pulling something like its usual 5-10 watts or so, while the i5 Air was pulling like triple that, fans blasting of course.
That's pretty typical of the M-series Macs in my subjective observation. My M4 Air at 50% screen brightness tends to ramp down to using as low as 3 to 5 watts while doing low-intensity stuff like writing or watching a video, and maybe 15 watts if I'm on a zoom call with the brightness turned up.
With the mix of usage I do, I found that taking my total number of battery cycles and the number of power-on hours (from DriveDx), I get an average of 10 hours active real-world use out of a 100% battery charge. I remember absolutely struggling to get more than like 4 hours out of that last Intel Air I owned.