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Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

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Re: Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

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Post by GurnBlandston »

joosters wrote: post #21

https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/privacy/uk/en/privacy... has this comment on the historical image collection: To ensure that Apple was applying the best image blurring technology possible, Apple conducted an entire year of test drives through the US and Europe in 2015, where it did not publish any of the imagery collected during these drives but used it instead to improve Apple’s technology such as image blurr…

This is still strange though - it's not like images are destroyed when they are used for testing. Is there a reason for not using these in Look Around that I've missed?

Re: Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

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Post by Terretta »

pierrebai wrote: post #6
paunchy wrote: post #2

Did anyone actually finish this article? It felt like it was building towards something really interesting but could have used just a bit more editorial discipline.

Sometimes, article have low information/length ratio. This one has a ton information of information, but still fail to satisfy because it has a low point/information ratio. It just rambles on with data points and examples. AFAICT, the points made are: * Apple switched from vans to subarus for data gathering. (IOW, they changed their data acquisition equipment.) * Their new equipment must be better, because Apple seem…

> they still ... mis-label / mis-place many buildings

On the contrary, that was in the traditional map.

The author’s actual point came after that: that Look Around didn’t have the same data quality issues, proving so free of such errors the author speculated whether they’re using manual labeling.

Re: Why doesn’t “Look Around” cover more areas?

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Post by newbie34 »

brundolf wrote: post #18
johnfn wrote: post #4

I love this type of article, and the effort put into it - but the main thing I can't help but do is wonder what kind of person is driven to exhaustively research Apple Maps over a 5+ year period.

I will also say it took way too long to get to the point. Several points that could've been made with 1-2 examples had 5-6. It got a little exhausting.

FWIW, I didn't notice any point that had 5 or 6 examples.
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