{"id":1838015,"date":"2025-03-17T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1838015"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:06:41","slug":"apple-maps-surveyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/03\/apple-maps-surveyor\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps Surveyor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maps Surveyor screenshot. Apple App Store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last week Apple launched Maps Surveyor<\/a>, a mapping app with a specific purpose, MacRumors<\/em> reports<\/a>. \u201cThe app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with to assign mapping tasks. […] Strings in Apple’s Surveyor app found by MacRumors<\/em> suggest that once assigned a mapping task by the Premise app, Premise users will be instructed to attach an iPhone to a mount, rotate the iPhone\u200c to landscape orientation, and capture images along a route while driving using the Surveyor app.\u201d In other words, it\u2019s the user end of a crowdsourcing pipeline that funnels local data to Apple Maps via a third party \u201ctask marketplace.\u201d Not something most of us would ever use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Apple launched Maps Surveyor, a mapping app with a specific purpose, MacRumors reports. \u201cThe app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with to assign… 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":[83,261],"class_list":["post-1838015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple-maps","tag-crowdsourcing","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805677,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/apple-maps-asia-pacific-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1838015,"position":0},"title":"Apple Maps Asia-Pacific Update","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple\u2019s new maps have come to Australia [9to5Mac, MacRumors]. 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