Try zooming in a lot and then two-finger-swiping upwards until it turns 3D.
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Redesigned Apple Maps Expands to Germany and Singapore
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Try zooming in a lot and then two-finger-swiping upwards until it turns 3D.
Good that Maps coverage is expanding. Still a lot left to expand. Want to see in other countries too.
Some improvements: most of my village is no longer shown as a forest, and there are house outlines.
However my area is still shown as a forest… and all the houses are just dumb cubes in 3D - no actual 3D building views.
However my area is still shown as a forest… and all the houses are just dumb cubes in 3D - no actual 3D building views.
not sure about other cities but more dailed maps are live in Cologne as well
yet to try the speed limit feature. so excited about that! had to be using flitsmeister in the background so far. i thoght apple is not implementing it because it is considered as a for of antiradar thus illegal, especially since speed limit is live in so many other eu countries
He was referencing the LookAround feature which is currently only available in Munich.
All of Germany should have the rest of the new Maps features.
Look, you've seen the pictures of the guy with the mapping backpack - he can only walk so fast.
Yeah, Apple, for a company with trillions of dollars and what, at least tens of thousands of employees, seems to end up with a lot of problems where obviously needed things don't get done because they seemingly can't devote enough people to it - from not getting enough teams to do mapping, to having various important projects that each have only one or two developers who really understand how to work on them, and they keep getting pulled off to work on other Very Important Right Now projects.
If there are millions of customers who depend on some particular Apple app, it shouldn't be the pet project of one guy whom you distract constantly - let them work on it exclusively, let them document it (developer documentation, not end user manuals) and train others to work on it, so it doesn't depend on just one or two developers, and get more developers so there isn't the need to pull the only people who know that app away from working on that app (training others would also give the original one/two developers a chance to then put more focus on other projects).
If Apple can't hire sufficient developers, given all their resources, then they need to start looking at long-term solutions to that, right now. There's been talk about how they have their own internal "school" for training executives - put that same kind of focus into developers. They've got ridiculous resources - as one idea, perhaps they could consider some sort of scholarship program, say, "pass all our aptitude tests, and we'll sign a contract with you: we'll give you a full scholarship to get a four year computer science degree, if you in turn promise to come work for us for X years after that (plus you'll get paid internships with Apple)" - the military has had success with something similar in the past, IIRC. Maybe that's not the right model, but there's got to be something Apple can do, proactively, other than just throwing up their hands and saying, "we can't get enough qualified developers", and then pulling existing developers off projects that actively need work to put on other projects deemed more urgent.
And we see this across many aspects of Apple - hell, Macs got kind of ignored for years. The increasingly inadequate trashcan Mac Pro got left on the market basically unchanged, for nearly six years - that's not because it was perfect as-is for the intended use, that's because they were "stretched too thin" - as a multi-trillion dollar company.
Similar thing with mapping. Seems like too few resources are being put into this. Can't get enough qualified people to work on it? Have you tried offering more money, just as one idea? They seem to have made mapping vehicles and mapping backpacks that work quite well, it's past time to scale it up.
Why would an audible indication that you were exceeding the posted speed limit (and thus should probably slow down) be considered to be something designed to thwart police radar use? Is the primary intent of police radar use supposed to be improving traffic safety, or raising income for the police?
If you were expecting to see what color your house is, that'd be on the satellite view, not the main/default "explore" view (the driving and transit views are similar to the explore view, while the satellite view actually does get a lot more detailed - I can examine houses from all sides, see what color they are, where the windows and doors are, etc.).
On the view you see while driving, it's intentionally simplified - you shouldn't really be looking at the screen to examine the architecture, just to see that something is, say, the third building before the end of the block. Looking at the buildings here, where they did the enhanced mapping some time back... on all but the satellite view, most buildings look like boxes with the corners (er, that is, the vertical edges) rounded off, like a 3d projection of a rounded rectangle. They get major details, like if a building is L-shaped or U-shaped, but they're intended to tell you roughly how the area is shaped, alongside the road you're driving on, not to give you a tour of the neighborhood. Personally, I find it just about the perfect amount of roadside detail while driving. If you want lots more detail, try switching to the satellite view.
Apple Maps is still a cluster. I added an address for work in my contact and when I type in “work” into maps, it drops a pin at a nearby shopping plaza. But when I enter the actual address into maps, it drops the pin on the correct building. I’m convinced the idiots at Apple will never quite get maps right.
Uh, no. I copied and pasted it several times cos I was dumbfounded at how stupid and strange this bug was.User error…
Live in Stuttgart also.
The new features look quite good, I must admit I tend to use the „Public Transport“ view mostly (because that is my most common way of getting around).
My only wish is they do better with things like opening hours and such - I know a lot of that comes from Yelp, but much of it (here in Stuttgart anyway) is hopelessly out of date.
There are two places where this can be entered for those using either Maps or those that have their own info card set up in Contacts. I would check both places to make sure they match.
- In the Maps app
on your Mac, click the Info button
next to Home or Work (in the sidebar below Favorites).
If your favorites aren’t showing, click the arrow.
- Click Open My Contact Card.
If you don’t have a contact card, you can create a new one or make an existing card your contact card. - Click Add Address, click the arrow , then choose whether you want to add a home, work, or school address.
- Enter your address, then click Done.
The home, work, or school address now appears in your favorites.
Sorry to be daft, but as a German resident does it just update by itself? Or is it inside ios? Cheers
It is a server side update, so there is nothing anyone needs to do. If you are not seeing it or want to force the update, you simply need to do a hard restart of your device and it will grab the update (assuming you are on a version of iOS needed to run the latest data)
Having tried this yesterday, I have to say the updated looks with added detail are nice (a bit confusing since I am so used to the old look 
) and it's also a plus that now directions include things like "turn left on the next traffic light". Speed limit indication is a mixed bag, though, since it does not include reduced limits due to construction sites or damaged roads (understandable from a technical/data maintenance point of view, but it also means that the info coming from my car that uses camera-based detection of road signs is much more useful). Moreover, Siri's pronunciation is still erratically incorrect; but I guess that's a different story.
) and it's also a plus that now directions include things like "turn left on the next traffic light". Speed limit indication is a mixed bag, though, since it does not include reduced limits due to construction sites or damaged roads (understandable from a technical/data maintenance point of view, but it also means that the info coming from my car that uses camera-based detection of road signs is much more useful). Moreover, Siri's pronunciation is still erratically incorrect; but I guess that's a different story.not sure what other’s experience is but since the update maps in germany became sometimes unreliable, many times it wanted me to route me through pedestrian areas, roads blocked for cars, public transport only road / turns
It's very easy to either do a screen shot of the issue or simply share the routing locations where this is occuring on here so people can see for themselves. Otherwise, I'm not sure me or others will take a post like this very seriously. It has happened and will happen again, but issues as serious as what you are referring to are extremely rare and/or are fixed before someone else experiences it or has a chance to view it.
It doesn't have to be identifying info...just share "I was trying to go from 'POI A' to 'POI B' and it routed me through a park with sidewalks"...I'm happy to verify the issue and also report to Apple so it is fixed!