Apple Maps Vehicles
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Apple Maps Vehicles
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#2Does anyone have a photo of one of these vehicles? I'd love to see it.
Apple is certainly in the long game with their maps... One interesting thing to point out is that while google streetview started as a project to augment the maps with photos, it quickly became clear that these photos of the streets could be a primary way to gather accurate real-world data about the streets, one-way signs, street numbers, and so on. Clearly Apple is up to the same thing here.
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#3Eight years behind Google. I'm interested to see how quickly they can catch up!
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#4Does anyone have a photo of one of these vehicles? I'd love to see it. Apple is certainly in the long game with their maps... One interesting thing to point out is that while google streetview started as a project to augment the maps with photos, it quickly became clear that these photos of the streets could be a primary way to gather accurate real-world data about the streets, one-way signs, street numbers, and so o…
This article has one:
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/17/apple-maps-vehicles-engl...
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#6This is impressive...while I'll be using Google Maps on iOS for a long time to come...Google has such a lead that creating one's own geospatial dataset seems tantamount to reinventing the wheel...yet, it seems dangerous to not have competition in this area, as it gives one company almost unilateral power to define the existence of geography (at least for day-to-day usage). And of course, using Google Maps means buying into their user-information-sharing system. Glad Apple is using its money to take on the challenge.
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#7This is impressive...while I'll be using Google Maps on iOS for a long time to come...Google has such a lead that creating one's own geospatial dataset seems tantamount to reinventing the wheel...yet, it seems dangerous to not have competition in this area, as it gives one company almost unilateral power to define the existence of geography (at least for day-to-day usage). And of course, using Google Maps means buyin…
When you talk about user-information-sharing-system you mean Google having the information about maps use, so, you sharing the map use information with Google, isn't?
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#8An enourmmous task to accomplish, but it improves its mapping data
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#9Does anyone have a photo of one of these vehicles? I'd love to see it. Apple is certainly in the long game with their maps... One interesting thing to point out is that while google streetview started as a project to augment the maps with photos, it quickly became clear that these photos of the streets could be a primary way to gather accurate real-world data about the streets, one-way signs, street numbers, and so o…
This article has one: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/17/apple-maps-vehicles-engl...
They aren't very aesthetically pleasing...
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#10This is impressive...while I'll be using Google Maps on iOS for a long time to come...Google has such a lead that creating one's own geospatial dataset seems tantamount to reinventing the wheel...yet, it seems dangerous to not have competition in this area, as it gives one company almost unilateral power to define the existence of geography (at least for day-to-day usage). And of course, using Google Maps means buyin…
When you talk about user-information-sharing-system you mean Google having the information about maps use, so, you sharing the map use information with Google, isn't?
I'm not sure what your question is asking...but what I mean is that Google Maps are ostensibly improved by analyzing how users use the app and how they seem to utilize the information...I imagine just as Google search tracks which search results you click -- and also, if you hit the Back button, and how long it took you to do that -- in order to evaluate SERP effectiveness, there must be some kind of feedback for Google Maps...? The live traffic projections, AFAIK, are a result of collecting GPS information from Android phones on the road.
Apple has been claiming that it wants to build apps that don't draw on user information, as to prioritize user privacy. Maybe they'll apply that attitude towards their Maps app.