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Google Maps to Gain Impressive New 'Immersive View' Later This Year

H2SO4 said:
That old trope. I bet you don't even know exactly what data they collect and what they do with it, other than saying something very generic like;
They track you.
They sell your data.
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Well for starters they probably track your location within the boundaries you gave the app.
Then they probably track your searches
your taps on the map
POI you check
directions

I just don’t want Google to know where I live, where I want to go, what businesses I’m possibly interested in, etc
Just because it’s old trope doesn’t make it invalid :) I’m going to great lengths to prevent them from tracking me across the web (I have all Google URLs/IPs blocked except ReCaptcha) so I don’t want to give them free data.
 
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H2SO4 said:
That old trope. I bet you don't even know exactly what data they collect and what they do with it, other than saying something very generic like;
They track you.
They sell your data.
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Apple Maps already has this feature. It’s called flyover. However, googles version here is a bit more immersive with the live traffic info, weather and other animations as well as the walk in feature inside of locations. Which are all really nice additions.
 
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H2SO4 said:
That old trope. I bet you don't even know exactly what data they collect and what they do with it, other than saying something very generic like;
They track you.
They sell your data.
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It is "an old trope" indeed, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Google's business model is to sell ads. It's better at selling ads when they're highly targeted towards you. This incentivizes collecting a lot of data about you (and using machine learning to extrapolate data that may not even be accurate). Apple's core business is completely different from that.
 
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SBlue1 said:
Apple Maps will never catch up with Google maps. In Germany Apple Maps is way behind Google. It took Apple 4 years to correct the name of my street.

I am stunned why Apple services are such a hit or miss. Some like iCloud, Home, Apple TV+, Siri or Apple Maps are trash outside of the US and seem to be run by a handful of people working in part time from home and wo never used those things by themselves. Some service on the other hand like Apple Music, Fitness + or Apple Pay are great and way above the competition.
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iCloud works very well for me, here in Germany. Same for Apple Maps. So you might want to reassess your general evaluation as just based on one person’s experience. Nicht mehr, nicht weniger.
 
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BootsWalking said:
Apple Maps will add this feature too but will give you an immersive view of the wrong route ?
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That joke would’ve been funny about 5 years ago. Apple maps has gotten a lot better with routing since the launch.
Also, it’s AM had this feature since it first came out. It’s called flyover. Google is copying it and just adding some animations over it. No big deal.
 
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Hushpuppy! said:
Apple Maps already has this feature. It’s called flyover. However, googles version here is a bit more immersive with the live traffic info, weather and other animations as well as the walk in feature inside of locations. Which are all really nice additions.
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Did you actually mean to reply to me?
 
GeoStructural said:
Well, I am in the US and my neighborhood is still also not on Apple Maps. ?

Edit: Attached a screenshot, the house was built in 2019, the neighborhood probably since 2017-2018… still not on Apple Maps, at least you can see the street grid.
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Have you reported it? They are usually pretty responsive the times I have reported issues with outdated maps, businesses, etc.
 
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Sorry, but this is just eye candy. I mean what's the use? Routing is the killer function in a mapping app. And Google Maps are getting worse by the day, routing cars through tiny alleyways that are not for cars. Traffic gauge is also increasingly unreliable. Google Maps cannot even differentiate if I'm driving a car or a motorcycle, unless I manually select the method of transportation. Come on, what are those "machine learning" doing?
 
einsteinbqat said:
I’m going to ask it. What do we need all this for? Sure it’s amazing, but what purpose does it serve?
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Betcha people said the same thing when Google came out with finger scrolling on maps. “Hey, I like my tile-by-tile Mapquest. What’s the big deal?”
 
H2SO4 said:
That old trope. I bet you don't even know exactly what data they collect and what they do with it, other than saying something very generic like;
They track you.
They sell your data.
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Luckily Apple will now tell you exactly what they collect to decide for yourself. FYI- it’s alot for a map
 
H2SO4 said:
Yes, as has Apple maps and most other mapping solutions. Why don't you try it and see for yourself?

Or were you just looking to post a first and most flippant remark?
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Google is still unusable. Feels thrown together by a bunch of tech heads that don’t care about the end user
 
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So we can view Westminster in better-than-life (tm) resolution, but we still can’t have our motorways the correct colour, which Apple Maps manages.
 
SBlue1 said:
Apple Maps will never catch up with Google maps. In Germany Apple Maps is way behind Google. It took Apple 4 years to correct the name of my street.
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Did you send them feedback? I actually did that bc my street number was wrong, pretty annoying during a pandemic. It was wrong on both services, so I sent them. They corrected, then changed it back, then I sent them and it stayed corrected until now. It works. It took them a couple of weeks.
 
Try the Organic Maps app too! It’s free, open source, powered by open street maps which is the Wikipedia of maps. It doesn’t have all the features of apple or google. But if you’re looking for an alternative, it’s worth a look. And you can download regions for offline navigation.
 
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jnngr said:
It hasn’t been useless to me in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Poland and Germany.
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I cannot confirm for all those places, but I can for Portugal, Spain, and France, how long ago did you use it there? it was so bad for me (pre-pandemic)!!! I could see my GPS location in the context of nearby landmarks and walk to them, but I could not get directions from my hotel to the places I wanted to go. Finding/searching was also imprecise, the names didn’t match or even exist anymore, whereas Google Maps was able to do all of this.

Just to clarify, I use Apple Maps while in the US, but I cannot deny it still is behind GM in many regards.
 
In the meantime Apple still hasn't put British motorway junction numbers into its maps app, making it utterly useless.
 
gluckett said:
Have you reported it? They are usually pretty responsive the times I have reported issues with outdated maps, businesses, etc.
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I have, nothing has changed, and I have never received a response.

Same as my parent’s address, Apple Maps is still using the street name it had decades ago, data from the TomTom maps Apple used at the beginning, I have been reporting it since 2013 and still no change.
 
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GeoStructural said:
Well, I am in the US and my neighborhood is still also not on Apple Maps. ?

Edit: Attached a screenshot, the house was built in 2019, the neighborhood probably since 2017-2018… still not on Apple Maps, at least you can see the street grid.
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Does your "Main Street" just dead end? So curious!
 
SirChristopher said:
Does your "Main Street" just dead end? So curious!
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Lol. Yes, it comes to a dead end but not there where you see on the screenshot, today it extends some 7 more miles into the neighborhood. The plan is for it to connect to another road South, but that will take some time until they continue developing the area.
 
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