Apple has invested significant efforts to constantly improve its maps, which we can see in the Apple Maps application. Cars around the world are responsible for collecting detailed information, to capture buildings, vegetation and other details, with the greatest possible reality.
Today we have known a study carried out by the designer Justin O'Beirne, which is developing an exhaustive comparison for compare Apple Maps and Google Maps. At those points where the two maps offer their maximum detail, Apple Maps offers more graphical information from the point we are observing. Let's see its pros and cons.
First of all, Apple's weak point is the coverage they cover today. Apple Maps, only 3,1% of the earth's surface and 4,9% of the population. Apple has promised to have 100% coverage by the end of next year in the US Therefore, Apple's investment in Apple Maps in 2019 should be intensive, although this project has been evolving for years. In addition, Apple is not forgetting the rest of the territories outside the US and wants to advance in this endeavor.
In the most positive part, we find the extensive detail of apple maps in certain areas. According to O'Beirne:
Don't let its size fool you, it is a radically different map than previously seen, with an astonishing amount of vegetation detail. Apple hasn't just mapped the desert. Cities are also noticeably greener.
The most notable differences are in the smaller cities, further from the Bay Area, such as Crescent City. Crescent City is one of 52 county zones located within the coverage area of the new maps. Surprisingly 25% of these county areas that had no vegetation or greenery on the old map, and now look completely different.
In O'Beirne's words, he is in awe of the more exact detail possible.
What is truly remarkable about this new vegetation is how deep everything is, even the strips of grass and vegetation between paths, inside clovers and even in the corners of houses.
In an interview with TechCrunch when he was working directly for Apple:
We do not believe that there is anyone doing this level of work that we are doing, that is true in the detail of vegetation resolution of the houses. Nobody else has it.
The details also reach beaches, ports, race tracks, parking lots and golf courses:
Golf course details, such as fairways, sand traps, and greens. School details such as baseball diamonds, running tracks, and soccer fields. Details of the park, such as swimming pools, playgrounds and tennis courts. And even the backyard tennis courts.
Esto demonstrates Apple's rivalry with Google in a field where differences are gradually reduced.
It will be only in that because in what it is to take Google gives a thousand turns