{"id":1789480,"date":"2020-10-06T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789480"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:08:12","slug":"apple-and-google-maps-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/apple-and-google-maps-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google Maps Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Apple Maps<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>AppleInsider<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/09\/27\/how-to-get-cycling-directions-in-apple-maps-for-ios-14\">how cycling directions work in iOS 14<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Macworld<\/em> provides a primer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3575812\/how-to-report-wrong-locations-in-apple-maps.html\">how to correct errors and add features in Apple Maps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Apple\u2019s new maps have now officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/uk\/newsroom\/2020\/10\/apple-rolls-out-all-new-maps-across-the-united-kingdom-and-republic-of-ireland\/\">launched in Ireland and the United Kingdom<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/apple-maps-updates-in-ireland-japan-and-the-u-k\/\">previously<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Google Maps<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Google\u2019s official blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/new-sense-direction-live-view\/\">details updates to Live View<\/a>, Google Maps\u2019s AR feature that superimposes walking directions on the view through your phone\u2019s camera (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/google-maps-gets-augmented-reality-walking-directions\/\">previously<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>A primer on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/how-do-satellite-images-work\">how Google Maps acquires and processes satellite and aerial imagery<\/a>, also from Google\u2019s official blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/10\/01\/google-maps-nazi-problem.html\">Google Maps has a Nazi problem<\/a>, says Mike Shaughnessy: the service\u2019s inadequate review moderation and its poor handling of memorials (whichit expects to act as businesses) provide an inadvertent platform \u201cfor Nazi veneration and Holocaust jokes.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s new maps have now officially launched in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/apple-and-google-maps-updates\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[600,83,921,462,82,1451],"class_list":["post-1789480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-augmented-reality","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-ios-14","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791065,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/05\/google-maps-updates-at-google-i-o-apple-maps-additions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps Updates at Google I\/O; Apple Maps Additions","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 May 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Google Maps-related announcements at Google\u2019s I\/O 2021 keynote today include routing improvements to reduce hard braking, enhancements to Live View, expanding Google\u2019s new detailed maps to 50 cities, identifying crowded areas, and tailoring map data to time of day and whether you\u2019re travelling. This post takes a deeper dive on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787430,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/06\/comparing-apple-maps-in-ios-13-to-google-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":1},"title":"Comparing Apple Maps in iOS 13 to Google Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 June 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Om Malik's take on the updates to Apple Maps: \"all it does is remind me of Bing\u2014an also-ran that can never catch up to Google.\" The WWDC hoopla around this tells me that Apple thinks of Apple Maps as an application, whereas in reality, maps are all about data\u2014something Google\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1790617,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/04\/apple-and-google-updates-ai-improvements-airport-health-measures\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":2},"title":"Apple and Google Updates: AI Improvements, Airport Health Measures","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 April 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Last week Google announced \u201cover 100 AI-powered improvements to Google Maps\u201d would be coming this year; these include bringing Live View indoors, a new air quality map layer, eco-friendly routing, and support for curbside pickup in business listings. Meanwhile, Apple Maps is now displaying airport COVID-19-related health measures based on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1790207,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/google-and-apple-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":3},"title":"Google and Apple Updates","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Google explains how they identify and take action against fraudulent content\u2014fake reviews, fake listings, content vandalism\u2014on Google Maps. Meanwhile, the ability to pay for parking and transit fares is being integrated into the Google Maps app (Engadget, The Verge). On the Apple Maps front, cycling directions have come to Portland,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1791492,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/a-look-at-apple-maps-in-ios-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":4},"title":"A Look at Apple Maps in iOS 15","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"MacRumors takes a look at the changes to Apple Maps in iOS 15. \u201cApple has made so many improvements to the Maps app in iOS 15 that it's almost an entirely different experience. There are better driving directions, improved transit directions, and more immersive AR-based walking directions.\u201d That\u2019s maybe a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5394,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/09\/apple-google-map-kremlinology\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789480,"position":5},"title":"Apple-Google Maps Kremlinology","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 September 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"Details continue to emerge, as details tend to do, about how and why Apple replaced Google with its own maps in iOS 6. 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