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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Fixing the Apple Maps Point of Interest content problem with Apple Business Connect
One of the long term challenges with Apple Maps is improving the Point of Interest (POI) content. It’s a problem that remains even as Apple rolls out ‘New Maps’ based on their proprietary collected image data. Justin O’Beirne has covered it from the US angle, I have posted about the […]
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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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iOS 16: missing features in Japan (updated)
Any WWDC OS announcement is always a matchup contest of what’s coming for America and what’s missing in other regions like Japan. Let’s take a quick look at what’s coming, what’s not and other quirks on the iOS 16 feature page. What’s missing Live Text that actually works for Japanese […]
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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 […]