Apple's New Map

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Post by joao » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

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Post by keyle » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:43 PM UTC

On a side note I can't even imagine how big that webpage was. If you like animated gifs, boy have I got the page for you!

All in all, what I've learnt is how many petabytes must be involved in mapping the US and the world and the 3D aspects.

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Post by cheeze » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

The maps stuff never ceases to amaze me. Seriously cool engineering going on in these spaces!

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Post by Calib3r » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:52 PM UTC

keyle wrote: post #2

On a side note I can't even imagine how big that webpage was. If you like animated gifs, boy have I got the page for you! All in all, what I've learnt is how many petabytes must be involved in mapping the US and the world and the 3D aspects.

89.9MB, 48.33s load time.

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Post by RKearney » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:52 PM UTC

keyle wrote: post #2

On a side note I can't even imagine how big that webpage was. If you like animated gifs, boy have I got the page for you! All in all, what I've learnt is how many petabytes must be involved in mapping the US and the world and the 3D aspects.

78.6MB. Every image is loaded on page load.

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:53 PM UTC

Very interesting. Anecdotally, I've found the new Maps to be much better in its level of detail–at least from the brief time I was able to use it this summer–but from the article it looks like most of that might just be things to make the map look pretty? It seems like Apple is extracting shapes from satellite imagery to make their maps look better, but failing to include actual business and place information.

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:54 PM UTC

keyle wrote: post #2

On a side note I can't even imagine how big that webpage was. If you like animated gifs, boy have I got the page for you! All in all, what I've learnt is how many petabytes must be involved in mapping the US and the world and the 3D aspects.

I'm left wondering how much data would be saved if they were videos rather than GIFs. They'd probably end up being better quality, too!

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Post by forgot-my-pw » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:55 PM UTC

Always a joy to read this website's map analysis. You can really see a lot of work has been put by both vendors through time.

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Post by nod » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:55 PM UTC

This author just does such amazing work, consistently. A joy to read.

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Post by ummonk » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 10:55 PM UTC

It's weird how out of date data in providers like Tom Tom is. I just pulled up the GIS data from Monterey County and it clearly has the same roads that the new Apple Maps shows for Parkfield. (I can't check Markleeville, as Alpine county charges a fee for their GIS data)