Apple announced this week its Maps team will be driving and walking across six Canadian cities next week.
The Apple Maps team will be in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa from Monday, August 8, 2022. Apple says they will be “driving vehicles and wearing specialized backpacks with equipment to help us build the best digital map of Canada.” The company emphasized, “your privacy is our priority.”
According to Apple its ground surveys will help improve the Maps feature Look Around. The company periodically revisits locations to get the most up-to-date data. Cars will drive on roads and the backpacks will enable data collection where driving isn’t possible.
The pedestrian backpack collection will take place in B.C. from August 8 to September 30, 2022. During this same period, vehicle collection will take place in Alberta, B.C., Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec as well.
Last September, Apple also announced its Maps teams would be walking around Canadian cities in the fall to help the company’s Look Around feature, which launched in Canada back in late 2020.
Apple Maps versus Google Maps–which app do you use and trust more? We still use Google Maps 100% of the time.
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I’m about 80/20 Apple Maps to Google maps. If I know where I want to go and need directions, Apple Maps works great. But if I’m trying to find something new or discover things in a foreign place, Google maps has the better feature-set.
I’m not quite 80/20 as you I think I’m more situational. If I’m going somewhere and I want to make sure I get most up to date traffic or alternate directions I use my google maps but if I’m not in a hurry and going somewhere I know well then I put on apple maps. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It’s quite random.
I use Google Maps if I have to get somewhere during rush hour to get a better sense of traffic. I like the way Apple Maps tell me that I am approaching a stop sign or light.
Apple Maps.
100% Google Maps
waze????
Waze uses Google Maps data
About half and half. Apple’s Look Around feature is so much better than Google Street View, it’s a full generation of technology better than what Google has.
0/100! Apple Maps is trash. Google Maps ftw with better and more accurate directions, offline maps, most up-to-date maps Apple Maps just doesn’t stack up.
Siri and Apple Maps are the only two Apple products I don’t use within the Apple ecosystem and rely on alternatives from Google instead.
Except for couple of instances where road closures were not reported in Apple Maps while Google was aware of them… I prefer Apple Maps for time estimation. The accuracy of Apple to give ETA has no pair on Google/Waze, specially on trips between 2 cities like Ottawa and Montreal, the accuracy is under the 5 minutes error considering outbound and inbound traffic in both cities while Google/Waze are off by 15 minutes or more on the same 250 Km trip.