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Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by Lio on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:18PM (#25572918)
Only time will tell and we can be hopeful but a map that only covers part of any particular country is not very useful for navigation except as a proof of concept.

As it is it’s more like the 3D Tour feature of Maps. A great novelty but not useful outside of a very narrow usecase. That’s been around for a few years now but is still only available in a handful of locations.

Re:Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating by eigen on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:12PM (#25574261)
> been around for a few years now but still only available in a handful of locations.

seems like a fairly long list though I havent monitored how often they add locations so maybe it launched with 100+ international locations.

https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#maps-flyover