{"id":1809861,"date":"2022-11-15T18:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809861"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:06:26","slug":"immersive-view-and-the-death-of-consumer-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/immersive-view-and-the-death-of-consumer-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive View and the Death of Consumer Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to Google Maps and Apple Maps, with their extensive street-level and flyover imagery, <a href=\"https:\/\/maphappenings.com\/2022\/11\/10\/maps-dead\/\">James Killick believes that maps for the consumer are moving away from symbolic representation and toward creating digital models of the real world<\/a> that, he says, are not maps. \u201cIt\u2019s all part of a trend, a downward trend in my opinion, that will result demise of consumer maps. Contrary to Beck\u2019s approach to distill reality into its essential essence we\u2019re moving in the opposite direction. [\u00b6] We are instead on a path to the dreaded metaverse, a virtual world where we should all be thankful and glad to wander around as legless avatars with the aspirational goal of reaching social media nirvana. I don\u2019t know about you, but, ugh.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/latlong.blog\/2022\/11\/are-consumer-maps-dead-does-it-matter.html\">Lat \u00d7 Long<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to Google Maps and Apple Maps, with their extensive street-level and flyover imagery, James Killick believes that maps for the consumer are moving away from symbolic representation and toward creating digital models of the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/immersive-view-and-the-death-of-consumer-maps\/\">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":[83,82],"class_list":["post-1809861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple-maps","tag-google-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786709,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/where-apple-maps-and-google-street-view-will-be-driving-or-walking-next\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809861,"position":0},"title":"Where Apple Maps and Google Street View Will Be Driving (or Walking) Next","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple now has a fleet of cars collecting data for Apple Maps. Since they've been making a point about consumer privacy lately, this page lists where their cars are going to be in the coming weeks. (AppleInsider notes that some of that data collection is pedestrian-based.) 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Google is using machine learning to predict traffic flows and improve ETA estimates (Engadget, The Verge). 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His conclusions? Apple Maps in iOS 13 is the biggest step forward the app has ever taken. 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