{"id":1833822,"date":"2024-08-30T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833822"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:49:19","slug":"online-maps-roundup-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/online-maps-roundup-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Maps Roundup: August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Apple Maps<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/08\/07\/apple-maps-real-time-transit-info-tokyo\/\">launched real-time transit information for Tokyo<\/a>. Meanwhile, <em>MacRumors<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-18-maps\/\">takes a look at what\u2019s coming to Apple Maps in iOS 18<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/use-search-here-feature-apple-maps-ios\/\">an additional look at the upcoming \u201csearch here\u201d function<\/a>. <strong>Google<\/strong> and <strong>Waze<\/strong> updates <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/maps-waze-new-features-information-on-the-go\/\">announced at the end of the last month<\/a>: Google Maps gets easier incident reporting and destination guidance (the building you\u2019re heading to is highlighted on the map); Waze upgrades include new camera alerts, event-based (e.g. concerts and sporting events) traffic notification and reporting, and locked-screen navigation. Also, the Google Maps app <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/07\/31\/google-maps-bottom-bar-redesign-rolling-out\/\">now has a simplified tab bar<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/08\/27\/google-maps-pin-redesign\/\">they\u2019ve changed the pin design<\/a> too. What can I say: updates are a little less earth-shattering than they used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Maps has launched real-time transit information for Tokyo. Meanwhile, MacRumors takes a look at what\u2019s coming to Apple Maps in iOS 18, with an additional look at the upcoming \u201csearch here\u201d function. Google and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/online-maps-roundup-august-2024\/\">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":[83,82,102,1689],"class_list":["post-1833822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple-maps","tag-google-maps","tag-japan","tag-tokyo","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785048,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/apple-google-and-waze-which-is-most-accurate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833822,"position":0},"title":"Apple, Google and Waze: Which Is Most Accurate?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 February 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Artur Grabowski spent most of 2017 testing three mapping apps\u2014Apple Maps, Google Maps and Waze\u2014to see which app was the most accurate in terms of travel time to destination. His questions: which app estimated the shortest travel times, which app actually got him to his destination in the least amount\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":1790100,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/crowdsourced-incident-reporting-coming-to-apple-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833822,"position":1},"title":"Crowdsourced Incident Reporting Coming to Apple Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Crowdsourced incident reporting\u2014a feature already available in Google Maps and Waze\u2014is coming to Apple Maps: the beta release of iOS 14.5 enables users to report accidents, road hazards and speed checks, with Siri and CarPlay integration. More at CNet\u2019s Roadshow and MacRumors, among others; the final, public release of iOS\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":1786361,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/a-google-maps-roundup-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833822,"position":2},"title":"A Google Maps Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The Verge\u2019s Dan Seifert tries out Google Maps and Waze on CarPlay, and concludes that \"neither Google Maps or Waze are particularly compelling compared to their Android Auto counterparts or even Apple\u2019s own Maps app.\" The unkindest cut: \"If I\u2019m traveling somewhere unfamiliar, Apple Maps is just more reliable to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/google-maps-ios-icon-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1786302,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/google-maps-adds-carplay-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833822,"position":3},"title":"Google Maps Adds CarPlay Support","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"iOS 12, which adds support for third-party map apps in Apple CarPlay, was released on Monday. Google wasted no time: a day after that, they released version 5 of Google Maps for iOS, which adds CarPlay support. AppleInsider has a hands-on look at Google Maps on CarPlay. 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Up until now the only maps available via CarPlay were Apple's own; drivers who would rather use something else\u2014and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carplay-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1830267,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/04\/online-maps-roundup-april-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833822,"position":5},"title":"Online Maps Roundup: April 2024","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 April 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Custom route creation and topographic maps are rumored to be coming to Apple Maps in the next iOS release, iOS 18. Google Maps has had custom routes since approximately forever; on Apple Maps we\u2019ve had to choose between Apple\u2019s generated routes without being able to edit them. Google Maps announced\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\/1833822","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=1833822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833824,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833822\/revisions\/1833824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}