Redesigned Apple Maps Expands to Canada

[ravenstar]

I'm in Canada, I don't really hear people speak English in my day to day life, but I can tell you I've never really heard anyone say "aboot" and "eh".

Where does that stereotype come from?

My goodness, my in-laws are Canadian and "eh" is definitely part of every other sentence. It's probably a regional thing like a Boston accent, but it's certainly real.

 

[Canyda]

Do you have your grocery store saved as one of your favorites?

That would explain it then as Maps tends to default to either "home" or "Work" or other "saved" destinations.

Knowing that you were not heading "Home" as indicated (like taking a turn in a completely different direction) it will suggest another destination and give you the option to select "go"...but will eventually just route there on its own after a few seconds if you don't select "go" yourself.

The automatic suggestions are scary based on the time I leave my house...I didn't realize I was so predictable...

The grocery store isn't in my saved favourites, but it is a place I go regularly, so, yeah, I assumed that Maps basically made a smart guess based on my movement patterns.

 

[jhollington]

To clarify the story, not only has all of Canada received the new Maps update, it looks as though every major city as well as the major highway systems have received Look Around. Yes, there are missing streets/areas, but this is a MASSIVE Look Around update.

EDIT: As Justin mentions on his page, 99% of the population of Canada now has Look Around coverage.

Yup, and I'm surprised Apple isnb't touting this much more, as Canada is now the best covered country on the planet for Look Around. It's not just every major city, but pretty much the entire country south of the tree line. Of course you're not getting remote northern cities like Yellowknife, Iqaluit, or Churchill, but even the smallest little towns in northern Ontario are included (e.g. Latchford, population 313, is the smallest of the small, and it's in there), but also remote stretches of highway where there's nothing to see but rocks and trees (to be fair, not every little side road is covered in the smaller towns, but some of them area — it's not just the highways running through them).

It basically looks like the Apple Maps camera cars just drove around the entire country without stopping, and even Justin implies this by noting that Canada is just a single big Look Around zone.

My guess is that Apple doesn't want to make too much noise about this simply because it's makes their U.S. coverage — still only about a dozen cities — look pale by comparison.

 

[mrmcgoo]

I'm in Canada, I don't really hear people speak English in my day to day life, but I can tell you I've never really heard anyone say "aboot" and "eh".

Where does that stereotype come from?

I've lived in Canada for 13 years now, and Canadian's definitely do say "aboot". It's the easiest way to tell a Canadian from an American (I'm English). It's a more subtle difference than the spelling "aboot" implies, but it's definitely there.
I would guess it's something to do with the Scottish influence of early settlers here.