{"id":1817545,"date":"2023-07-26T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817545"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:50:25","slug":"apple-maps-roundup-for-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/apple-maps-roundup-for-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps Roundup for July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downloadable maps are coming to Apple Maps in iOS 17<\/a> this fall. Ars Technica<\/em> looks at how they\u2019ll work<\/a>, and how they\u2019ll compare to Google Maps\u2019 offline maps (at the moment\u2014which to be sure is with the iOS 17 public beta\u2014Apple\u2019s offline maps take up much<\/em> more space but also offer more detail).<\/p>\n

James Killick considers Apple\u2019s forthcoming Vision Pro<\/a> headset and wonders whether something might not be afoot in the mapping space<\/a>. \u201cThe real kicker for geospatial is its ability to immerse you in a truly 3D experience. […] So given a truly immersive 3D experience is possible, think of the wonders it will do for maps and mapping in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

After expanding its new maps to central Europe<\/a>\u2014Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia\u2014in April, Apple brought detailed city maps to Paris, cycling directions to the whole of France<\/a>, and its new maps to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Slovakia<\/a> in June. As usual, Justin O\u2019Beirne has all the details at the above links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downloadable maps are coming to Apple Maps in iOS 17 this fall. Ars Technica looks at how they\u2019ll work, and how they\u2019ll compare to Google Maps\u2019 offline maps (at the moment\u2014which to be sure is… 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":[600,83,921,283,54,113,577,649,153,1628,1183,260,1626,508,172,120,1629,1627,1630,1631],"class_list":["post-1817545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-augmented-reality","tag-austria","tag-cities","tag-croatia","tag-cycling","tag-czechia","tag-france","tag-hong-kong","tag-hungary","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iphone","tag-paris","tag-poland","tag-slovakia","tag-slovenia","tag-taiwan","tag-vision-pro","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5318,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/05\/new-maps-in-ios-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817545,"position":0},"title":"Apple to Abandon Google Maps in iOS 6?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 May 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"There are rumours that for iOS 6, the next version of the operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, Apple will replace Google Maps with an in-house mapping application with an impressive 3D mode; the app will apparently \"blow your head off,\" to quote John Paczkowski's source. 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