Eight years behind Google. I'm interested to see how quickly they can catch up!
Google refreshes their street view every so often, so if they have a comparable fleet it should take about the same amount of time (roughly 2 years or so).
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#12Eight years behind Google. I'm interested to see how quickly they can catch up!
It's unlikely to take anything like 8 years. Much of Google's effort during that time has been refreshing images of streets they had already visited. If Google has visted a street 4 times to keep the data up to date, Apple only has to visit it once to be just as up to date (and continue to visit regularly after that to stay up to date, of course).
edit: mixmastamyk beat me to it by 1 minute, so +1 to you sir.
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#13Eight years behind Google. I'm interested to see how quickly they can catch up!
They aren't 8 years behind.
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#14Next step: JavaScript API?
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#15Any news on whether Apple will contribute these findings back to OpenStreetMaps, like Microsoft's apparent provision of Bing aerial imagery?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 Goo…
Then you won't have things like live traffic, it is a tradeoff
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#17Interesting and not something I'd have expected from apple. That actually brings up an interesting question... How many miles of roads are in the us? Europe? How many of these vans will they deploy?
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#18This 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…
For me the biggest problem with Apple Maps on iOS is usability, not data.
The first thing I've ever seen anyone do when they start a route on Apple Maps is pinching to zoom out. No, you need to use the overview button. Wait, where's the overview button? You need to tap the map to show the button, and then tap the button and it shows the whole route. After that you have to zoom back in to see what's coming up next in the route.
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#20Eight years behind Google. I'm interested to see how quickly they can catch up!
That's like saying Apple was 10 years late to the mobile phone game. If I have learned anything in my lifetime is that it doesn't matter how early you get started, newer and better technology will make incumbents obsolote. I'm sure Apple's street view is nothing like that of Google, but better.