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From Reddit (not my post):
Summary of Apple's enormous Flyover update in the US & Canada:
Received Flyover:
- Billings, MT
- Corpus Christi, TX
- Edmonton, AB (Canada)
- Eugene, OR
- Idaho Falls, ID
- Jackson, MS
- Kankakee, IL
- Kingston, ON (Canada)
- Lansing, MI
- London, ON (Canada)
- Regina, SK (Canada)
- Richmond, VA
- Saguenay, QC (Canada)
- Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
Existing imagery updated
- Amarillo, TX
- Boise, ID
- Chicago, IL
- Fayetteville, AR
- Milwaukee, WI
- Montreal, QC (Canada)
Let me know if I missed any!
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Staying far away from the news thread about Apple versus Google Maps. Hah!
Haha when I first saw it, I saw the "Apple Maps" part of the headline and I was hoping it was going to be an article about Look Around FINALLY rolling out to the rest of the US. And then I saw the "versus Google Maps" part. Darn it 😂
Has anyone else in iOS 17.4 lost the ability to report incidents?
First noticed it was missing in iOS 17.4 beta 4 (updated for the new CarPlay / Maps stuff), and it didn't come back in the release candidate or final version.
In Australia, if that matters....
Not visible in CarPlay, nor when just navigating with Maps on iPhone.
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Still listed as available in Australia - https://www.apple.com/au/ios/feature-availability/#maps-report-an-incident
First noticed it was missing in iOS 17.4 beta 4 (updated for the new CarPlay / Maps stuff), and it didn't come back in the release candidate or final version.
In Australia, if that matters....
Not visible in CarPlay, nor when just navigating with Maps on iPhone.
Report an incident in Maps on your iPhone – Apple Support (AU)
With iOS 14.5 and later, you can report incidents — such as accidents, hazards, speed checks or roadwork — in the Maps app on your iPhone.
Still listed as available in Australia - https://www.apple.com/au/ios/feature-availability/#maps-report-an-incident
I reported an issue of a wrong location to Apple Maps last week, then today got a notification asking for more info. I didn't have the time to add the extra info so I tapped the "Not Now" button. Now I go back into Maps and I can't find how to get back to where I am supposed to add the extra info. I can't find any "Pending Issues" section or something like that. Do I have to go back to "Report an Issue" and just do it all over again or is there a section in Maps that will list the pending "Not Now"s?
In the Maps app, tap on your picture/account on the right hand side of the main menu below the map…tap on “reports”….reports in review are right at the top
Thank you very much. I should have checked my account picture but it honestly never even occurred to me. I wish Apple made it a bit more obvious that that is where I am supposed to check, like maybe adding a red notification badge to the account picture. Also, I had actually added a line of extra info before I tapped "Not Now" and I see that it didn't save the text I inputed. But I'm digressing. Thanks again, I appreciate your quick reply!
Interesting…
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Apple Maps May Gain Custom Routes With iOS 18
Apple may be planning to add support for "custom routes" in Apple Maps in iOS 18, according to code reviewed by MacRumors. Apple Maps does...
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I'm surprised that it's taken this long, TBH. You'd think that will all the data the phones collect when we use Maps that it would "learn" some of our usual choices.Interesting…
Apple Maps May Gain Custom Routes With iOS 18
Apple may be planning to add support for "custom routes" in Apple Maps in iOS 18, according to code reviewed by MacRumors. Apple Maps does...
For instance, on my normal route to work, I NEVER take the suggested right turn a few KMs from my office to come in "the back way" because it requires me to turn left into my parkade across morning traffic. Instead, I go straight and make a different turn that gets me to the other parkade entrance where I can do an easy right turn into my parkade.
You'd think after not deviating from my preferred route for months and months and months, that Apple would just stop suggesting the one turn I never take and give me the "usual" route I take.
Apple Watch Topographic Maps Could Expand to iPhone in iOS 18
Another possible big expansion - feels like this takes us one step closer to more areas getting DCE since topography is a significant part of it. Kinda wild DCE expansion is taking so long, but I feel like with the wider expansion of 3D Flyover (which has elevation data), it makes sense they would finally bring it to the regular map mode too. Also given that it's already on watchOS 10.
Another possible big expansion - feels like this takes us one step closer to more areas getting DCE since topography is a significant part of it. Kinda wild DCE expansion is taking so long, but I feel like with the wider expansion of 3D Flyover (which has elevation data), it makes sense they would finally bring it to the regular map mode too. Also given that it's already on watchOS 10.
Unless I'm wrong but I don't think topographic data is Apple data. So, it can't announce anything.
Topographic data has been around forever though and doesn’t really require much if any input from Apple.
Looks like Austin & San Antonio TX got Look Around added today!
Apple has also released Look Around in Salt Lake City. Apple has expanded Look Around coverage in several areas in California.
Not the wide release we’ve been hoping for, but adding new cities AND expanding some already released ones is better! The size of the outward expansion from the Bay Area and Sacramento coverage areas is pretty significant! Cool to see my hometown included! Fun to see how that’s changed since I haven’t been there in years 😂
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Not the wide release we’ve been hoping for, but adding new cities AND expanding some already released ones is better! The size of the outward expansion from the Bay Area and Sacramento coverage areas is pretty significant! Cool to see my hometown included! Fun to see how that’s changed since I haven’t been there in years
I’m hoping that this is the beginning of a gradual but continuous rollout of this. Still no Look Around in Connecticut. And it still ends just north of Westchester Airport in NY State.
I see one problem...
While browsing around the expanded Look Around area (SF Bay Area), I noticed the imagery date. October 2018. That got me thinking. Whenever Look Around finally expands to where I live now...imagery from 2018 (that's if they do the same thing they just did for the Bay Area expansion) is going to be VERY out of date and inaccurate. A LOT has changed here in the last 6 years. It would also put Apple pretty significantly behind Google in this area, because our Google Street View imagery is from last August. Sure, there's a lot of places that haven't changed much in the last 6 years, but then you have those places that are the complete opposite and have changed a lot.
While Apple's image quality and smoothness is certainly ahead of Google...recency of imagery could end up still being a win for Google.
While browsing around the expanded Look Around area (SF Bay Area), I noticed the imagery date. October 2018. That got me thinking. Whenever Look Around finally expands to where I live now...imagery from 2018 (that's if they do the same thing they just did for the Bay Area expansion) is going to be VERY out of date and inaccurate. A LOT has changed here in the last 6 years. It would also put Apple pretty significantly behind Google in this area, because our Google Street View imagery is from last August. Sure, there's a lot of places that haven't changed much in the last 6 years, but then you have those places that are the complete opposite and have changed a lot.
While Apple's image quality and smoothness is certainly ahead of Google...recency of imagery could end up still being a win for Google.
Just to confirm, you live in an expanded part of an area that already has Look Around? Austin & San Antonio just got LA and the imagery is around 2021-2022
I do not live in a covered area, unfortunately. (To add insult to injury though, I live juuuuuuust outside of a covered area...that also has the DCE 😂). I was just looking at the SF Bay Area because the city I grew up in is now covered by the expansion.
You are correct though, it seems! The new coverage areas seem to have more recent imagery than the areas that got imagery from an expansion of an already released area. (Though I have only looked at the expansion from the SF Bay Area so far. I haven't looked at any of the cities in Southern California to see if those are also from 2018).
You are right. It's crazy that Apple can release images dating from 2018. 6 years to have images from 2018, we expect better from Apple. For example, Apple released images of a highway in 2018... Another inconsistency is the discontinuity of Look Around on some sections. There is even a road that has Look Around on one direction and not on the other. It gives the impression that Apple has quickly released this expansion. Apple has not accustomed us to this, I must say that it is rather worrying because the benefit of the doubt is no longer admissible now....
I see one problem...
While browsing around the expanded Look Around area (SF Bay Area), I noticed the imagery date. October 2018. That got me thinking. Whenever Look Around finally expands to where I live now...imagery from 2018 (that's if they do the same thing they just did for the Bay Area expansion) is going to be VERY out of date and inaccurate. A LOT has changed here in the last 6 years. It would also put Apple pretty significantly behind Google in this area, because our Google Street View imagery is from last August. Sure, there's a lot of places that haven't changed much in the last 6 years, but then you have those places that are the complete opposite and have changed a lot.
While Apple's image quality and smoothness is certainly ahead of Google...recency of imagery could end up still being a win for Google.