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iOS 12.3.2 - iPhone 8 plus
Yep...me too. Discovered it this morning while at work. Seems to have come on overnight.
Checked for anything new in the New York area, but couldn't see anything. Performance does seem smoother, though. And the 3D buildings while navigating seem to blend in a bit more with the map now. Perhaps to help you see the roads better? They're a bit less sharp now than in previous weeks. Certain buildings also appear to be a lighter shade than other buildings.
Anyway, here's Texas and everything. Love how green Louisiana and Mississippi are.
Checked for anything new in the New York area, but couldn't see anything. Performance does seem smoother, though. And the 3D buildings while navigating seem to blend in a bit more with the map now. Perhaps to help you see the roads better? They're a bit less sharp now than in previous weeks. Certain buildings also appear to be a lighter shade than other buildings.
Anyway, here's Texas and everything. Love how green Louisiana and Mississippi are.
Here’s a screenshot of a golf course in New Orleans. They even have the sand traps laid in there.
Impressive... most impressive!
Does it match the satellite shot?
It does, almost precisely. That's probably a pretty easy one, given the contrast between the sand color and the grass color. Its even picking up on the difference between the fairway and the rough as well. That's pretty slick!
Wow, Apple Maps is even showing the tiniest little bits of vegetation in parking lots. That's neat.
COME TO NEW YORK ALREADY!!!!!!
COME TO NEW YORK ALREADY!!!!!!
More and more is changing behind the scenes, even when we don't see the visual updates yet....
I CAN'T WAIT FOR iOS13 WHEN IS IT COMING OUT OH GOD
I CAN'T WAIT FOR iOS13 WHEN IS IT COMING OUT OH GOD
Oh...one thing I noticed locally even though I’m not in an updated map area, the “entrances” feature is working great.
There is a pharmacy down the road that is technically located on the main road. Before, every map app would take me to the main road and want me to make a right at the intersection and then an immediate left into the pharmacy at its physical address.
I would never do that normally since it means blocking traffic and cutting across three lanes where cars are typically stacked up at the light.
Apple Maps has me go straight instead and enter off the road I am already on since it is marked as an entrance to get to the pharmacy.
All three access points to my local grocery store are marked properly as well and I’ve noticed that Maps defaults to keeping you on the road you are already traveling on so you don’t have to turn across a lane if at all possible.
Edit: And for comparison
Google - defaults to the better entrance like Maps
Waze - defaults to the bad main road entrance
HERE - defaults to the bad main road entrance but does give the better entrance as an optional route
There is a pharmacy down the road that is technically located on the main road. Before, every map app would take me to the main road and want me to make a right at the intersection and then an immediate left into the pharmacy at its physical address.
I would never do that normally since it means blocking traffic and cutting across three lanes where cars are typically stacked up at the light.
Apple Maps has me go straight instead and enter off the road I am already on since it is marked as an entrance to get to the pharmacy.
All three access points to my local grocery store are marked properly as well and I’ve noticed that Maps defaults to keeping you on the road you are already traveling on so you don’t have to turn across a lane if at all possible.
Edit: And for comparison
Google - defaults to the better entrance like Maps
Waze - defaults to the bad main road entrance
HERE - defaults to the bad main road entrance but does give the better entrance as an optional route
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I’ve had that come up several times too. Nice feature. @Chacocliff, do you really want to have that meeting broadcast to the world?
I could swear I’ve seen that feature sporadically in earlier versions of ios12! Possible, I guess, since it is a Siri suggestion thing. However, can’t replicate it in iOS 12 side by side with iPadOS (where it does work reliably).
MapNSoft has released its new maps software for the second half of 2019 (version 13.5) for in-dash navigation systems. The update for Genesis and Hyundai vehicles doesn't mention any new functionality related to Apple CarPlay. Perhaps Version 14 for 2020 will include an update to permit Apple's second stream of data into other car functions.
If I had to venture a guess, I’d say that there will be some Map related feature on the new iPhones that will accompany more widespread US-based Maps updates. Maybe it will be A/R related. But I think we will see a larger announcement related to the more detailed base-layer maps during the iPhone release next month. I do not see Apple just sliding big updates to major cities like NYC in without a major announcement. The iPhone event will be the largest announcement for the rest of the year and it makes sense that they’ll say something then and release it with iOS 13.
Don't they already have that capability with current phones though? I saw a story on here where someone added an AR option to an event to use with Maps. I guess when Look Around is expanded to more locations, it might come naturally.
I think the biggest add they could do is offer a web based version for everyone to have access to for routing, making corrections/changes, etc. There are just so many Apple fans out there that could help take Maps to a new level if they had a web based version to use for updates or routing that could be forwarded to their phone.
How it happens, I don't know. I just think its a big enough deal for them and the Apple ecosystem that they will not release the rest of the US in dribs and drabs like this. It is much too good of a PR play just to rely on people like us posting when we "discover" a newly covered area. This is Apple's one chance to make some reputational headway against Google and to recover from the disastrous launch of Maps.
I see what you're saying now...but still do not agree. I think their best play is to stay the course with what they are doing now (dribble out slowly, the under the hood improvements we have been experiencing everywhere even in non-updated areas, mapping effort that has picked up dramatically in Europe, expansion of Look Around, etc.).
At some point in the future after most of that has been completed or seriously underway (next 12-18 months), they will do an independent study of Maps versus the others to prove out some of the enhancements that we have been experiencing in the US. Maybe better ETA's, lane guidance, graphical features, etc. that really one-up Google. At a minumum, they will have a follow-up article like last year's pointing out all of the changes so at least it is distributed through the main press.
No matter when that happens though, you will always get the very loud "Apple Maps sent me off a cliff" people or the "it's not updated in my area...I'll guess I'll see that in the year 2039 at the rate they are moving" people...the "how can they NOT have bicycle directions?" people. Those are always my favorite comments to read.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Mapping tech is probably one of the 3 or 4 major tentpole features of any smartphone. There is no way Apple is going to re-do the fundamental underpinnings of the basemap of, say, NYC and not have a major press release or, more likely, a proud moment at a big event (WWDC or iPhone unveiling). This is a VERY big deal and there's no way Phil Schiller will miss the opportunity to crow about it!
Google did this for the latter. It didn't work out so well.
They do have MapKit JS for sites wishing to use Apple Maps functionality in their own ways. But I wouldn't say that a web-based Apple Maps will happen in the near future — there's zero financial incentive for Apple.
I'm not talking about user submitted changes, I'm talking about the same "error reporting" that already exists in the Maps app and simply allowing the same to exist in a web based version. I believe people are more likely to research and submit changes on a web based platform than from their phone.
Phone changes are "active" (I make the change because something went wrong)
Web based changes are more "passive" (I am on the web just to look at areas and will make corrections as I notice the errors). Like Waze does...I actually go on the web editor site every once and a while and might spend hours going around the map areas I know and make or submit corrections.
As of about an hour ago, I’m now seeing the north east updated. Everything from Maryland and DC up through Maine. So far, I’m only seeing it on my phone, not my iPad (both on the most recent iOS 13 public beta), so it looks like they may be slowly rolling it out.
