Apple has expanded availability of the Look Around, Nearby and public transit directions features on its mapping service, with updates now live in a bunch of new markets.
Residents of Hong Kong can now use Apple Maps to search and get transit directions for metro trains, buses and ferries. However, indoor station mapping is currently unsupported,
Apple is apparently working on much deeper integration of relevant Apple Store information for its Apple Maps services in the upcoming iOS 14 update.
You can now access departure times and transit routes for various modes of public transport in major cities across France, Germany, Spain and other European countries.
Customers in West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and North Illinois can now enjoy enhanced Maps coverage and terrain detail, including parking lots, foliage, pools and the like.
Detailed Maps data now available in Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine.
Be sure to watch this revealing side-by-side comparison video driving the same road in Hawaii with Look Around in Apple Maps on iOS 13 vs. Street View in Google Maps.
Apple’s data-collection vehicles will be starting surveying the country beginning this summer.
Detailed terrain features, revealed when zooming and panning, should also launch for Alaska, South Carolina and Tennessee in the coming months.
Apple’s approach to privacy extends to the Maps service, which divides your route into scrambled sections on servers so that no one, not even Apple, knows your entire route.
Apple’s LiDAR-equipped vehicles have been conducting ground surveys around the world for three years now, collecting data which will be used to improve Apple Maps.
Apple has expanded coverage of Maps’ transit directions to encompass the entirety of a bunch of US states while indoor maps are now available for quite a few shopping malls.
