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Re:Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S. by jandrese on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:11PM (#21152271)
So Google Street View is chopped liver? Flat gray 3D representations don't seem to answer those questions as well as just tooling around the building in Google Street View.
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Re:Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S. by zapzupnz on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:40PM (#21152545)
Google's also moving towards adding 3D topography to their maps so I don't quite see what your point is. This isn't an Apple vs Google thing; they're both doing the same things, they just seem to have different priorities about the order in which they do it.
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Re:Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S. by outworlder on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:38PM (#21153408)
> So Google Street View is chopped liver

Yes.

Because this is missing an important point. In order to render the data, the data has to be in a format understood by computers, which street view is not.

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