Do that trip planning ahead of time and share the collection with anyone you’re traveling with, and they can call up all of the pertinent details with a few taps. For trip planning, it’s possible to capture locations for restaurants, hotels, sightseeing spots, sports arenas, and so on.
A Collection is a list of locations that can be created and edited by a user, then shared with a person or group.Ĭollections have a myriad of uses. One very useful new feature of Apple Maps is Collections. On some streets or at intersections, street names float in mid-air in large, readable text.Īpple may not have the entire world covered with 360° views - yet - but the images are much more detailed than those in Google Street View. Some facilities such as parking garages and restaurants are marked on the Look Around image with tappable icons for getting more information. With a swipe in any direction, you can look left, right, up, or down. Tap the arrows on the 360° view (next to the word “Done”), and the image expands to fill your screen. Tapping the binocular icon shows a look around the view window and highlights the location where the 360° view was captured. To see where Look Around is enabled, bring up a map on one of the mobile operating systems, zoom in on the map, and then look for a blue binocular icon (see image below). Sadly, it’s not available on macOS - just iOS and iPadOS. Look Around adds a similar function to Apple Maps, but at this time, it’s only available in a relative handful of American cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Las Vegas, New York City, Honolulu, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
One feature of Google Maps that has always been impressive is Street View, which provides a 360° view from almost any street or road around the world. Instead of just seeing streets marked, one can now see where commercial and residential buildings are located. The result is a much more accurate set of maps. On the golf course, it’s possible to see water hazards, sand traps, and roughs. Where parks previously showed a boundary and a name, detail now abounds with trails, ponds, sports fields, and more visible in the maps. This GIF from Apple demonstrates the improvements in map detailĪs you can see in the GIF from Apple embedded above, the improvements show outlines of buildings where there used to be white space and more detailed land cover.
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