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Re:Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google by wlesieutre on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @01:20PM (#36421482)
One more complaint: they've had survey vehicles with cameras and LiDAR on the road since at least 2015 [1] but their Street View competitor still only covers 19 cities in the US [2].

It was quite good both times I was within the coverage area, and I was guessing it might roll out much more widely as a feature of their VR headset (since the data is more 3D than street view's), but no.

There's a big list of places where they're mapping this year [3] but who knows when that data will make it to the actual service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_(Apple)#/media/Fil...

[2] https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#maps-look-ar...

[3] https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/

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Re:Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google by mikestew on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:42PM (#36426305)
As one who uses Apple Maps almost exclusively, it’s way too often that I say to myself, “Google has Street View down the Dalton Highway all the way to the Arctic friggin’ Ocean in Deadhorse, Alaska, and Apple can’t show me a street 20 miles outside Seattle?”
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Re:Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google by wlesieutre on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:45AM (#36432933)
Plenty of large cities missing entirely too. San Antonio (1.47 million), Dallas (1.3 million), Austin (974k), Jacksonville (971k), etc.

They've got 4 cities done in California, which leaves 15 for the other 49 states.

I'm in Knoxville which isn't covered, only Nashville here with Memphis presumably next in line. We're the 131st largest city in the US with about 200k people, similar to Salt Lake City or Columbus. Could be a long time before they get the rest of us.

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