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Huh - Apple has been accumulating its own map data since 2014 - pdq - 06-29-2018
Up til now, it has licensed others' data (like TomTom's, the article says). But it's ready to roll out it's own data now.
This might explain two things: why people found Apple maps to uncharacteristically suck, initially, and what these were all about:
Yeah, as it turned out, Apple was actually working on a self-driving car, but apparently the above wasn't part of that. Go figure.
Re: Huh - Apple has been accumulating its own map data since 2014 - macphanatic - 06-30-2018
Yup. I've seen several Apple vehicles driving around the east coast. Figured that they were collecting their own data.
Re: Huh - Apple has been accumulating its own map data since 2014 - MacArtist - 06-30-2018
I just saw an Apple Maps vehicle in Ft Dodge, IA driving around that town.