Apple rolled out Look Around expansions in Tokyo, Chiba, Shizuoka, Kyoto and Osaka on 2023-05-12 for all of the public roads in those prefectures, the very first ‘completely mapped’ by Apple prefectures, along with capital city or select city and district additions for Aichi, Hyogo, Gunma, Okayama, Fukuoka and Kumamoto […]
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iOS 16 Apple Maps Quick Look
In 2018 Eddie Cue said, “We have been working on trying to create what we hope is going to be the best map app in the world, taking it to the next step. That is building all of our own map data from the ground up.” After 10 years of […]
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When will Japan get Apple’s new map? Part 2: the private road problem
In part 1 we examined Apple Map Japan Image Collection for 2022 and concluded that all of Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Kyoto and Osaka prefectures will have been ‘completely mapped’. But this isn’t really true: yes official public roads will have been mapped but not private roads…and there are lots of […]
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The Reddit run-down
I joined Reddit for a few months in 2018, mainly to get in contact with FeliCa Dude, but soon left as I found subreddit comment threads a swampy, treacherous place. There was great content in the discussions to be sure but too much of it was people talking past each […]
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When will Japan get Apple’s new map? Part 1: the map supplier problem
Now that new maps for France and New Zealand are in final public testing and almost certainly to be mentioned at WWDC22, there is speculation that Japan is next in line for Apple’s “built from the ground up” new map. In my opinion, we must not forget Japan. Moreover, I […]