iOS 14 – The Map Room

Crowdsourced Incident Reporting Coming to Apple Maps

Jonathan Crowe — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:12:47 +0000

Crowdsourced incident reporting—a feature already available in Google Maps and Waze—is coming to Apple Maps: the beta release of iOS 14.5 enables users to report accidents, road hazards and speed checks, with Siri and CarPlay integration. More at CNet’s Roadshow and MacRumors, among others; the final, public release of iOS 14.5 should come out some time in the spring, I think.

Apple and Google Maps Updates

Jonathan Crowe — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:08:12 +0000

Apple Maps

AppleInsider looks at how cycling directions work in iOS 14.
Macworld provides a primer on how to correct errors and add features in Apple Maps.
Apple’s new maps have now officially launched in Ireland and the United Kingdom (previously).

Google Maps

Google’s official blog details updates to Live View, Google Maps’s AR feature that superimposes walking directions on the view through your phone’s camera (previously).
A primer on how Google Maps acquires and processes satellite and aerial imagery, also from Google’s official blog.
Google Maps has a Nazi problem, says Mike Shaughnessy: the service’s inadequate review moderation and its poor handling of memorials (whichit expects to act as businesses) provide an inadvertent platform “for Nazi veneration and Holocaust jokes.”

Apple Maps Updates Coming in iOS 14 This Fall

Jonathan Crowe — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:39:24 +0000

Updates to Apple Maps announced at WWDC last month include electric vehicle routing, cycling directions, traffic and speed camera notifications, and the ability to derive your location when GPS signals are weak by scanning the buildings in your area (presumably limited to cities with Look Around). In addition, Apple’s new, built-from-the-ground-up map data, which as of last January now covers the entire U.S., will be coming to Canada, Ireland and the U.K. later this year. The updates are a part of iOS 14, which launches in the fall. More at Engadget and The Verge.

Update, 7 Aug: MacRumors has a piece on what’s new in iOS 14 Maps.