Will today bring the REAL update to Maps?

[gforce216]

I understand iOS 7 has brought some nice tweaks to Maps, but Apple has not improved the POI system or added transit travel yet. We know that they have acquired HopStop and Embark, which focus heavily on transit mapping, while Locationary is a large POI database company.

Do you think that with the formal iOS 7 announcement today we will see a beefed up Maps app with transit navigation and a new POI search tool?

 

[fullauto]

I understand iOS 7 has brought some nice tweaks to Maps, but Apple has not improved the POI system or added transit travel yet. We know that they have acquired HopStop and Embark, which focus heavily on transit mapping, while Locationary is a large POI database company.

Do you think that with the formal iOS 7 announcement today we will see a beefed up Maps app with transit navigation and a new POI search tool?

Would be nice, along with Siri improvements.

 

[JaySoul]

Hmmmm.... I have a hunch that no, it won't be a particularly Maps day today.

 

[kappaknight]

Yeah, I feel like Maps are incrementally improved; especially the POI's. If you have millions of data points you need to add or update, you'd get them in as fast as you can, you wouldn't hold out for some special day to release the updates in bulk.

 

[Merkie]

I don't expect any new features for existing devices. Look at beta 6 - this is it, performance improvements / bug fixes set aside.

 

[matttye]

I hope so but on the other hand I think it sets a dangerous precedent. We don't want Apply to only update maps substantially when there's a keynote, i.e. once a year. Maps need to be constantly updated if they're going to be useful.

 

[joshforman]

I understand iOS 7 has brought some nice tweaks to Maps, but Apple has not improved the POI system or added transit travel yet. We know that they have acquired HopStop and Embark, which focus heavily on transit mapping, while Locationary is a large POI database company.

Do you think that with the formal iOS 7 announcement today we will see a beefed up Maps app with transit navigation and a new POI search tool?

It's probably too soon to add the transit stuff into iOS based on those recent acquisitions, but if locationary is solely backend, that might be a different story.

 

[ross1998]

Maybe in ios 7.1 just like they did in ios 6.

 

[haruhiko]

I understand iOS 7 has brought some nice tweaks to Maps, but Apple has not improved the POI system or added transit travel yet. We know that they have acquired HopStop and Embark, which focus heavily on transit mapping, while Locationary is a large POI database company.

Do you think that with the formal iOS 7 announcement today we will see a beefed up Maps app with transit navigation and a new POI search tool?

Google just launched Ground Truth and in door "Street View" in Hong Kong... while Apple Maps still presents the city with empty blocks only...I'm quite pessimistic about the future of Apple Maps. It will be there, but I can't really find any use for it, at least in my city.

 

[OneMike]

With google maps. Apple would have to do a lot to get me to switch back to it.