Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by mulmen on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:43PM (#17428413)

There's a huge amount of construction in Seattle right now. The streets around my office are constantly closing and opening on different days. Sometimes it is easier to just look at a map of the neighborhood and navigate from that. If Google wants the app to be used for navigation only they should have called it Google Navigation.

I like riding my motorcycle around and exploring the city. I may not have a specific destination in mind or want to take the most efficient route. being able to quickly pull up a map of my location mapped to signage in the real world is indispensable.

Naming streets is the entire point of a street map. It literally maps names to streets.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by dragonwriter on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:46PM (#17428427)

> Naming streets is the entire point of a street map

No, it's not. Showing where streets go is important independent of naming; street maps exist for places with unnamed streets (and include the unnamed streets), which would not be the case if mapping names to streets (or vice versa) were the entire point.

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Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up by mulmen on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:51PM (#17428452)

Ok fine, it's only a very valuable feature.

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