{"id":26230,"date":"2019-08-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26230"},"modified":"2019-08-13T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:12:18","slug":"apple-maps-in-ios-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/apple-maps-in-ios-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps in iOS 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Christoffel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Timed with the spread of its first-party mapping data, Apple is giving the Maps app a big upgrade in iOS 13 that represents the company’s biggest push yet to overtake Google Maps as the world’s most trusted, go-to mapping service.<\/p>\n

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The hallmark feature of iOS 13's Maps is Look Around, which serves as a direct competitor to Google's popular Street View. It enables viewing and moving through a 3D representation of the world from the perspective of a car on the road. Google launched Street View over 12 years ago, so Apple is laughingly late to the game with Look Around, but it aims to atone for its delay by offering a more modern, elegant experience than Google.<\/p>\n

Outside of Look Around, some of the biggest changes in the new Maps app reside in an improved navigation panel. Favorites have been revamped and made more accessible, while a new Collections feature makes it easy to save groups of locations for revisiting later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

What I really want to know: how is the basic map data?<\/p>\n\n

Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Regarding rural driving - people not used to driving in open areas don’t quite understand the problem. Most places don’t have addresses so turn by turn is useless or highly inaccurate. So directions refer to roads but when zoomed out you can’t see any of the roads.<\/p>\n

This isn’t a problem in the city, but I wish both Apple and Google would just have an option to display secondary roads. Both also confuse paved secondary roads, dirt roads, and OHV dirt roads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n