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iOS 13 'Look Around' Maps Feature Expands to Los Angeles and New York City
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Meanwhile, over here in Japan, my house doesn't even exist on Apple Maps, yet Google has street view of it, updated fairly recently. I have up-to-the-minute traffic info and detailed business locations on Google Maps too. Honestly, I reckon Apple Maps seems only to be useful if you live in California, or I guess NYC. For those of us who don't live in a major city in the US, it's complete rubbish.
Oh, the irony! Next to the Shred-It truck! I bet it’s another jab from Apple at Google
LOL....google is currently nationwide....yet somehow, in your mind, Google has catching up to do.
fairly recent imagery .. from a month or two ago.. (in Greenpoint at least)
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Apple Maps is already way better than Google Maps in terms of actual map details and navigation. Look Around makes it objectively better than Google Maps. They just need to work on data points, routing and traffic.
Maybe your statement would make sense if Google was standing still. But in my experience it seems like Google takes 5 steps ahead and Apple takes 1.
This is far far far from my experience and most others that I work with. It's taken me to the wrong business too many times and made me late for a couple meetings that I had to stop using it. It's a big running joke around the office: "he's late to the meeting? Must have used Apple maps."
Should read: Slowly, slowly, slowly Apple is inching closer to being better than 2007 Google Maps.
There is no “objective” in anything you just wrote, so I have no idea why you would use that descriptor.
Apple maps continues to be well behind in my experience on POIs....either missing or just plain wrong.
Apple maps continues to be well behind in my experience on POIs....either missing or just plain wrong.
From day 1 ... I loved the idea of Apple having their own Maps app and network, as everyone shamed and held stakes and pitch-forks in their hands at the ready when the name Forstall was shouted.
Nobody could see his vision back then ... Apple doing maps better than potentially and impossibly Google and leaving the treasure trove of cash going to Google. Now after 7/8yrs its slowly getting there.
I live in a pretty small Ontario town east of Toronto and saw the Apple maps car drive through my neighborhood not too long ago. I think they plan on expanding this very quickly.
All roads and paths of Earth. It's worth a billion $ to do it for all.
Routing and traffic is already better in iOS 13. It uses information pooled from every iOS device that’s on the road to build an accurate traffic data map. I’ve already found it to be way more accurate than in past versions. I recently saw an obstacle added in the map that AppleMaps suggested was probably an accident up ahead and as I got there, not only was it correct but the accident had just happened. iOS devices in other people’s cars must’ve interpreted these cars suddenly slowing down and then going around an obstacle, as a crash and immediately added it to Maps for everyone.
Apple’s points of interest will also soon improve dramatically, leveraging the same technology used in Look Around to read signs and use machine learning to determine stores, restaurants, banks, etc and match them to online listings.
I was disappointed to see everything from faces to license plates were blurred out.
Even Google Maps is pretty bad in Japan. A year and a half after the Kumamoto earthquake, it was still trying to take us down roads that had long been closed off. If you're serious about navigation in Japan, it's NAVITIME or bust.
Look Around has much better clarity than Google's Street View. It's also faster and more practical to maneuver.
Edit: Both are now showing up for me. They even added new 3D maps for areas of Westchester County, but the satellite images are still 2D for the most part.
Yes, Apple Maps is still behind Google. But they’re not nearly as far behind as people make them out to be (it’s like they’re recycling comments from 2012 re Apple Maps).
People seem to forget how bad Google Maps was in the beginning. I used to regularly see those “Top 10 Google Map Fails” posts online. People are also not paying attention to how fast Apple Maps is improving (faster than Google Maps did when they first started).
Further, there’s only so much you can do with maps. It’s not as if Google Maps is only 25% complete (feature wise) and we’ve got another 20 years of innovation coming which will leave Apple perpetually behind.
People seem to forget how bad Google Maps was in the beginning. I used to regularly see those “Top 10 Google Map Fails” posts online. People are also not paying attention to how fast Apple Maps is improving (faster than Google Maps did when they first started).
Further, there’s only so much you can do with maps. It’s not as if Google Maps is only 25% complete (feature wise) and we’ve got another 20 years of innovation coming which will leave Apple perpetually behind.
Well it’s already October and look around is only available in 3 big cities so call me skeptical that the entire USA will be rolled out by year end. Maybe a few more big cities but my Street? Doubtful.