With ‘flyover’ 3D rendering and Yelp/Siri integration, Apple Maps makes Google Maps look like child’s play
June 21, 2012 | Source: TechCrunch
Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps gives you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature (credit: Apple)
Apple just launched its stunning Maps product, with “Flyover” — Apple’s incredible new 3D maps display, which makes Google Maps look antiquated.
“We built an entire new mapping solution from the ground up,” Forstall said while demoing the product, “It is beautiful. We did all the cartography ourselves.”
In addition to the 3D display, Maps will have Siri integrated turn-by-turn directions. Crucial to the new Maps product is local search and Apple has taken in 100 million local businesses so far, in addition to partnering up with Yelp to provide the listings.
The company is also building a Waze-like traffic service, so users can see where slow traffic is and see accidents — Apple will use using anonymous crowd-sourced real time data from iOS users to keep this up to date.
All the new Maps will be vector-based; which means that users can rotate views, angles and drill down into buildings.
Comments (17)
by MikeB
Even Google maps, despite all its data, is not 100% reliable, even for simple destinations. So now one has to imagine being guided vocally to the wrong location, sort of like having a passenger doing the navigation. Except that when you arrive at the wrong location, there’s nobody to yell at! No thanks :-)
by Not Disclosed
The only thing you dirtbags produce is the vile stench from your rotting bodies. You are so wrapped up in bashing success yet you want to live forever. Forever will not be long enough for you to produce anything of value to others. In contrast the PEOPLE at Apple, Google, and other companies produce things others are willing to exchange for a portion of their lives. You people have no real lives therefore have no money, which is why you hate the success of others and your own squandered existence. If the singularity comes about, it will not be by you or for you. End it now and avoid the risk of an eternity being you.
by Luis Mesquita
yeah we might stink but at least we know some maths and it’s not a matter of “if” or “wanting” it’s “when”. It will happen unless there is a truly unexpected cataclysm. It’s like the atomic bomb if someone would told you 10 years before it would be such a thing your reaction would be exactly the same the same if told you would have a system like iPhone in your hand by the 90′s and for me it was so sure as death :) with engineering you understand that whatever system you want can always be modelled and replicated as long as it is finite.
No one hates the success what I don’t like is the concept of creating the biggest corporation ever that never produced one single piece of open source. That’s one type of globalization that I don’t like.
by Not Disclosed
It is difficult for you to understand that other people work, earn money, and spend it according to their will. You view actual success as a conspiracy. You try to disguise your hated for success but it breaks through when use code words like “globalization” and when you say you “don’t like the ‘concept’ of creating the biggest corporation ever” thereby detaching Apple from its own success and attributing the success to some concept that creates big companies. You close with the final insult – a blatant lie. You state Apple has never produced “one single piece of open source.” On this last point, I will accept that you are either pathologically lazy or a liar: http://www.apple.com/opensource/
BTW – Even by your own statements, you agree that the Singularity is not a given. If you do not understand please let me know and I will explain it.
by vescovom
what are you talking about dude? who’s bashing anyone on here except you? just calm down. I just read all the comments and yours looks like it was accidentally typed into the wrong browser window or something. some kind of hate site or something.
by Not Disclosed
Really? You are so blinded by your own bias that you cannot see it. Take a look:
“Apple has always lived by the idea of: A fool and his money will soon part”
i.e. Apple customers are suckers and Apple takes advantage of them;
“Are these specs for retarded people????”
i.e. Apple customers are intellectually impaired and therefore buy Apple products;
“…Apple circlejerks [sic] it’s products”
- figure that one out yourself;
and late to the dog pile, “No one hates the success what I don’t like is the concept of creating the biggest corporation ever that never produced one single piece of open source. That’s one type of globalization that I don’t like.”
i.e. Apple’s success is due to their evil intent – they take from society but do not give back.
You are the “dude” here. You want the parasites to like you — they won’t – they’ll do what parasites do…
by Chrispium
@Luis Mesquita
It’s true, Apple has always lived by the idea of: A fool and his money will soon part.
by Luis Mesquita
Are these specs for retarded people???? It’s like every GPS as to include this or else it won’t be a GPS they put a name on it and they say they invented it and I will have to ear people saying no one has ever had a turn-by-turn system.
“Turn-by-Turn Navigation
Find your way to your destination using turn-by-turn spoken directions, a 3D view, and real-time traffic information. As you approach a turn, Maps speaks directions, so you can keep your eyes on the road. In addition, the screen turns into a 3D perspective view of the road ahead. Large signs and arrows superimposed over the image show you which way to go and how long it’s going to take to get there — even if your screen is locked. As you approach a turn, the camera angle changes dynamically to show you where to go. If you miss a turn, don’t worry. Maps automatically reroutes you and updates your ETA.”
I think Apple is slowing down technology because they only apply they’re money into things to do more money and most of them are total waste of garbage for people with no sense of nothing at all who want to show off and spend they’re hard earned money on things they can get for a 10th of a price.
Question why does everyone knows how to work with Mac OS but they all find linux impossible to learn?? They are exactly the same at the moment… (this applies for example to Ubuntu which by the way is way faster then Mac OS)
I think Apple was revolutionary on the 90s now it’s just a huge peace of junk factory.
I’m so happy Google exists!
by Snake
Well its true that Apples offering may be a huge plate of hyperbole, but I am glad nonetheless. Why? Because this will push Google to improve Google Maps even more!
by Chrispium
… and thus continues the eternal war of evolution… Yes!
by Mortran
This article must be written by a total tech-ignorant. Google maps has a far bigger data base than the Apple app. Google has been collecting data for years, Apple is just a newcomer in this market.
by Conrad Green
I’ve noticed that lately Mortan. Who are these people writing these articles? Articles with misleading titles. I’m starting to stick to only IEEE Spectrum cause its not the information it’s the horrendous writers that discredit this site. Stop it. Your hurting my eyes. Every time you abuse the English language; somewhere in the world a kitten dies a horrible death.
by James Lindelien
If I turn off the 3D buildings layer in Google Earth/Maps, I see real data about the real world displayed to its available resolution, and that is more important to my needs than seeing a pretty-looking but possibly inaccurate CGI-souped-up rendering designed to put a pretty face on an app.
by secreteagle
Vectors do “look” pretty and google will zoop up theirs (sooner that you think) – reminded me of Vector! (Oh, Yeah!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1RnpMRbtQ
googlemaps may not be as good looking, yet they laid the foundation, they gave us useful maps, it runs on all my websites, on my blackberry, everywhere
by MyKindOfTown
Can we get a map demo that doesn’t focus on San Francisco or New York? Please?
by Mortran
These are the only maps they have.
by SWP
And why won’t this matter? Because Apple circlejerks it’s products. They’re luxury goods – too expensive for everyone to afford, and therefore, everyone can’t use them. So long as Apple do this, there will always be a market for Google Maps, Android, etc.