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iOS 13 'Look Around' Maps Feature Expands to Los Angeles and New York City

Khedron said:
How?
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It’s based on Lidar and is 3D representation versus Google’s “pictures”....more seamless than Google while using....clearer image....images are newer...it’s an integrated part of the mapping and not a separate “street view” application...Apple’s technology reads street signs, store signs, store hours. Etc for more accurate updates, Apple tech lets the user access images from multiple parts on the road/highway lane/etc for a more accurate representation of what you will experience (should tie well to future automated driving experience)....more???
 
I hope this gets expanded to non-major cities. It probably will.
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Rogifan said:
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.
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I may be wrong, but I think they said the entire United States will have the updated maps by the end of the year. Not Look Around.
 
I’m in the UK but have been playing with the new features... amazed at the strides Apple Maps is making. I know it’s taken a while but I’ll soon be able to ditch Google. How they keep up a fast rate of adding more locations.
 
idrewuk said:
I’m in the UK but have been playing with the new features... amazed at the strides Apple Maps is making. I know it’s taken a while but I’ll soon be able to ditch Google. How they keep up a fast rate of adding more locations.
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4.5 cities added to look around since 2013... they're going to need more cars...
 
Khedron said:
How?
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So Apple's stealing your information for its own benefit? Where's the permission setting for this tracking?
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It's buried under Privacy -> Location Services ->System Services -> Routing & Traffic, Improve Maps
 
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vault said:
It's buried under Privacy -> Location Services ->System Services -> Routing & Traffic, Improve Maps
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Thank you. Found some other dodgy stuff in there too. "Location-Based Apple Ads" no thanks. "Significant Locations" no thanks.
 
TacoChowder said:
Aww hell yes, time to try and find me walking around

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Dang they really pixelated faces, you can't even GUESS if it's someone you know.
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Yeah. License plates, too.
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Khedron said:
Thank you. Found some other dodgy stuff in there too. "Location-Based Apple Ads" no thanks. "Significant Locations" no thanks.
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So you don't want to know where the burger shop is. I do.
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In L.A., I discover, it's not just in tourist places. I went to the doctor this morning, and there were the binoculars. I'm relatively speaking in the middle of nowhere.
 
fmcshan said:
Slowly, slowly, slowly Apple is inching closer to being better than Google Maps.
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Give it a year or two, and it should be there. I greatly prefer the Maps app to Google Maps for navigation, this is just the icing on the cake.
 
Khedron said:
Thank you. Found some other dodgy stuff in there too. "Location-Based Apple Ads" no thanks. "Significant Locations" no thanks.
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The difference from Google is that this data is completely anonymous. I turned off the location based ads simply because I don’t want to see ads, but why not help with traffic data since it is anonymous?
 
robjulo said:
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.
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Are you inferring more POIs is objectively better than less POIs, or is that just an opinion?
 
ipedro said:
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.
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That’s great news regarding traffic. It’s like automatic crowd-sourced Waze. I think traffic routing needs a big improvement too. It’s very finicky during rush hour.

POIs using Look Around data would be huge. I think they really need to get away from the Yelp integration.

Look Around is such a game changer combined with the richer map data. Kinda irked people still refuse to get away from Google Maps.
 
I honestly could care less about bout Apple Maps UNTIL it is close in speed to Google maps. The navigation is just slower... Google maps I think cheats a little bit, assuming my current speed etc, but it can be very hard sometimes with Apple maps to know which of multiple intersections to turn at in close proximity. Wake me up when they’ve sped it up
 
tennisproha said:
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.
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So Apple Maps is better than Google Maps except they need to work on data points, routing, and traffic? Wouldn’t that mean google maps is better if apple needs to work on pretty much every aspect of navigation?....lol
 
palmerc2 said:
So Apple Maps is better than Google Maps except they need to work on data points, routing, and traffic? Wouldn’t that mean google maps is better if apple needs to work on pretty much every aspect of navigation?....lol
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Plus the amazing new look around feature that's definitely much better than street view currently only works in 4.5 cities around the world.
 
palmerc2 said:
So Apple Maps is better than Google Maps except they need to work on data points, routing, and traffic? Wouldn’t that mean google maps is better if apple needs to work on pretty much every aspect of navigation?....lol
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No... that’s not what that means. Apple Maps is much better than Google in mapping detail, actual navigation prompts, and navigation UI visuals.

As others mentioned traffic is much better in iOS 13 since they are real-time crowdsourcing traffic data from every iPhone currently on the road. Apparently Look Around data will be used to build out in-house data points in the future.
 
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