{"id":1789853,"date":"2020-12-22T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789853"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:34:54","slug":"apple-maps-updates-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/apple-maps-updates-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps Updates Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s new maps, first announced in 2018, have finally come to Canada: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/newsroom\/2020\/12\/apple-delivers-all-new-apple-maps-across-canada\/\">they went live country-wide on 10 December<\/a>. See coverage from <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/12\/10\/apple-maps-rolls-out-update-for-canada-packed-with-new-features\"><em>AppleInsider<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/12\/10\/redesigned-apple-maps-expands-to-canada\/\"><em>MacRumors<\/em><\/a>; Justin O\u2019Beirne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justinobeirne.com\/new-apple-maps-canada\">compares the new maps with the old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update also includes Look Around, and not just in a few locations. Elsewhere in the world, Look Around is being rolled out on a city-by-city basis; in Canada it\u2019s far more comprehensive. How comprehensive? I live in a village of 1,600 people not far from Ottawa, and <em>my house is on it<\/em>. (Based on the state of our gardening, the imagery was taken sometime in 2019, either in late summer or early fall.) Major highways are also included, not just cities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justinobeirne.com\/look-around-release-11\">Justin O\u2019Beirne looks at the coverage areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is the fourth country to get the new maps: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/apple-and-google-maps-updates\/\">Ireland and the U.K. got them in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s new maps, first announced in 2018, have finally come to Canada: they went live country-wide on 10 December. See coverage from AppleInsider and MacRumors; Justin O\u2019Beirne compares the new maps with the old. The&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/apple-maps-updates-canada\/\">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":[600,83,131,260],"class_list":["post-1789853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-canada","tag-ios","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806580,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/apples-detailed-city-maps-come-to-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789853,"position":0},"title":"Apple&#8217;s Detailed City Maps Come to Canada","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps\u2019s detailed three-dimensional city maps, which launched in a limited number of cities with the release of iOS 15, have now come to three Canadian cities: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. 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By gathering information from Indigenous advisors, cartographers, Traditional Owners, language holders, and community members,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Toponyms&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Toponyms","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/toponyms\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1807732,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/06\/online-map-roundup-apple-maps-in-ios-16-google-maps-displays-tolls-yandex-erases-borders\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789853,"position":2},"title":"Online Map Roundup: Apple Maps in iOS 16, Google Maps Displays Tolls, Yandex Erases Borders","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 June 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps in iOS 16 will gain multi-stop routing, which I thought was a long-established feature on other platforms, as well as transit fare\/card\/pass integration. 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Apple also launched Business Connect, a tool for businesses to upload their information to be used by Apple\u2019s various apps: not just Maps, though that\u2019s obvious (and something Google has been offering for quite\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":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789859,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789853\/revisions\/1789859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}