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Apple Maps Thread - iOS 15
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One can only hope.
I was reading on Reddit that Justin had a history with both Google and Apple going back some ten years or more.
In what capacity? The way I see it, his contribution was in methodically highlighting Apple Maps changes as they were becoming available, but I do not recall him predicting something based on his observations. IMO, Apple Maps could do much better with:
a) worldwide real-time user feedback that could be fed into the database;
b) more incremental, but also more frequent updates;
c) the web-based map.
This….LOVED Justin’s observations and detailed notes on changes, but he was also very good at staying away from much opinion or criticism of any map platform. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have good thoughts on what is missing or needed in any Map program.
We just need to step up our game here.
Unsure...he spoke at a Google Developers' Conference in 2011 regarding programming, and his name appears on multiple map-related patents first filed by Apple in 2015.
Hmm...his website has changed again.
https://www.justinobeirne.com/
Now he has a new message on top.
"Thank You! ?
This website began as a New Year’s resolution on January 1, 2010. Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting it over the past twelve years."
It's not all "archives" now...a number of items are now back on top as "Recently Updated", and the bottom off the screen now once again has a place to enter an e-mail address to be notified of new essays and such.
Maybe the whole thing was just a 12-year anniversary thank you that we all took the wrong way?
https://www.justinobeirne.com/
Now he has a new message on top.
"Thank You! ?
This website began as a New Year’s resolution on January 1, 2010. Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting it over the past twelve years."
It's not all "archives" now...a number of items are now back on top as "Recently Updated", and the bottom off the screen now once again has a place to enter an e-mail address to be notified of new essays and such.
Maybe the whole thing was just a 12-year anniversary thank you that we all took the wrong way?
We just need to step up our game here.
No kidding.
Just got out of the French woods (literally). According to Apple Maps, there were no walking paths where I was, while Google found quite a few and I was able to get back to the parking spot without any issues. Google also shows speed limits here, while AM do not. Some major AM tune-up cannot come soon enough! ✌️If you click on certain pages on Justin's site, a new banner now appears at the very top:
⚠️ Website construction & upgrades Dec 30–Jan 2
⚠️ Website construction & upgrades Dec 30–Jan 2
I hope that's the case. Definitely enjoy reading his stuff! Plus, I was really looking forward to his write-up on the changes to Maps in iOS 15. Hopefully it's still coming!
Since you said the place to enter an email is back, that...to me...would suggest we took it the wrong way. If he was done with the site, there would be no use for entering an email!
New Justin article!
https://www.justinobeirne.com/apple-priority-countries
And at the very bottom, in the foot notes:
"3 For those wondering, that other thing I had teased for December 2021 is still coming. (This piece ties into that one.) ↩︎"
https://www.justinobeirne.com/apple-priority-countries
And at the very bottom, in the foot notes:
"3 For those wondering, that other thing I had teased for December 2021 is still coming. (This piece ties into that one.) ↩︎"
I read his article as interesting as ever. We can therefore imagine that in the short or medium term, Denmark, Mexico , Brazil, Thailand and Turkey could be the next countries to receive an image collection. On the other hand, I think the list of countries that could receive the new map data is incomplete. In my opinion New Zealand and Singapore are more likely to be released before Switzerland, Austria, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Sweden because they are receiving a pedestrian image collection.
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He added pedestrian image collection to his article (I think he didnt have it before). Maybe he is reading this thread, who knows. ?
He definitely reads this thread. He used one of my old posts here as a basis for something he posted on his site some time back.
Justin added this sentence to his article “The Eiffel Tower and Paris “city experience” would certainly make for a compelling WWDC 2022 demo—especially after several straight years of San Francisco demos ”. It would be a first if Apple released the city experience so quickly. Can't wait for this WWDC ?
Snowing all day…there is never any traffic around here, so nice to see Maps is reflecting the slower travel due to the weather.
Haha you are very lucky to see the traffic lines so rarely! The good ole Midwest!Snowing all day…there is never any traffic around here, so nice to see Maps is reflecting the slower travel due to the weather.
That list is only for cities with the city experience expansion and thanks for copying my compilation of 3D buildings in Australia from my Reddit post (which even includes a spelling error).
I had Apple Maps drop the Bluetooth audio, stop announcing directions, and eventually crash and die a few weeks ago. I haven't been out since, so I hope it was a passing snit and it's going to be more usable/useful the next time. It's been, usually spot on, and stable, so that incident was a little shocking. I was at a point where I didn't need it and had just left it on, so maybe she (Australian Voice) knew it and had something better to do? Weird...
Interesting as I was about to post a success with reporting an accident just outside of my neighborhood that was still on there when I drove past it a little later.
Working fine for me obviously.
It's very weird because I reported 2 speed traps on Saturday.
The fact it's not working on my work iPhone, which has a different Apple ID is ... reassuring, in a weird way? Like, as in it's gotta be an Apple problem and not a ME problem.
I just checked and this still isn't working through the graphic interface, but I can report using Siri still. Weird.