What You Need to Know about Apple Maps

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Starting this fall, Apple will offer its own Maps feature that can give you turn-by-turn directions and traffic, all voice controlled via Siri.

Apple MapsThe Maps offer a cool feature called “Flyover,” which allows users to see a 3D view of buildings. Apple gathered its own imagery by using planes and helicopters to collect data for the 3D models, said Technology Review by MIT. Users can use their fingers to zoom in and out of the 3D view, a feature similar to one debuted by Google last week for Google Maps.

Apple Maps will also offer turn-by-turn direction (for the first time from Apple) with traffic updates collected by anonymous data from iOS users (crowdsourced, real-time traffic).

TomTom provides the maps for the feature (replacing Google).

The Maps are linked to Siri so users can ask for directions to the nearest gas station, for example.  They are part of the new iOS6 Apple operating system that is released this fall.

Source: Technology Review 

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