Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
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#2As a pedometer++ user, it is amazing the attention to detail David has maintained over the years. The evolution is crazy.
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#3The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream
It’s a lifestyle device after all but still
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I can’t believe you made me sign in just to downvote this.
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We really can't afford to keep blacklisting words for reasons that have no basis in reality. We're gonna run out of words.
(parent edited their comment - the suggestion was that "pedometer" is a bad name because of the first four letters being reminiscent of pedophiles and Epstein)
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#7As a pedometer++ user, it is amazing the attention to detail David has maintained over the years. The evolution is crazy.
He really is such a committed and dedicated developer. This here is of course a perfect example—"So… I commissioned a custom map" aka hiring a cartographer—but it was really cool how he blew up with Widgetsmith because he put in the effort with Watchsmith before, and was basically the world's expert on widgets? Couldn't happen to a better guy.
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#8For others curious like I was, it seems he hired a cartographer to render essentially a set of huge, nice-looking, custom map images with details like hiking trails that Apple Maps doesn't have.
So unlike Apple Maps, which is dynamically rendered, it basically shows image tiles. It allows for a nicer-looking, more detailed map, but affects things like needing separate downloads for different zoom levels, rotation, updatability.
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We really can't afford to keep blacklisting words for reasons that have no basis in reality. We're gonna run out of words. (parent edited their comment - the suggestion was that "pedometer" is a bad name because of the first four letters being reminiscent of pedophiles and Epstein)
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