{"id":11127,"date":"2023-08-09T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/a-decade-after-a-disastrous-launch-is-apple-maps-finally-good\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:37:47","slug":"a-decade-after-a-disastrous-launch-is-apple-maps-finally-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/a-decade-after-a-disastrous-launch-is-apple-maps-finally-good\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engineers\u2019 work on cycling and public transit have transformed the app \u2013 but rural directions remain a sticking point<\/p>\n

In October 2022, New York City officials unveiled a new bike lane on Schermerhorn street, one of the most dangerous and heavily trafficked streets in downtown Brooklyn and somewhere I had always avoided on my bike. Unless I was a religious reader of transportation department press releases (I\u2019m not), I would have no way of knowing the lane existed \u2013 except that very same morning, my Apple Maps app sent me on the new Schermerhorn bike lane, instead of hurtling down Dean Street. By the time I was taking my return route, it was busy with cyclists.<\/p>\n

For Apple to know the lane was open, it had to have updates from the Adams\u2019 administration, as well as, presumably, hundreds of other city governments around the world. How was the company pulling it off? And it\u2019s not just cycling: it also knows the placement of the trees in Central Park, when the bus is coming, and whether a dive bar takes contactless payments or is cash only.<\/p>\n

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\nEngineers\u2019 work on cycling and public transit have transformed the app \u2013 but rural directions remain a sticking point
\nIn October 2022, New York City officials unveiled a new bike lane on Schermerhorn street, one of the most dangerous and heavily trafficked streets in downtown Brooklyn and somewhere I had always avoided on my bike. Unless I was a religious reader of transportation department press releases (I\u2019m not), I would have no way of knowing the lane existed \u2013 except that very same morning, my Apple Maps app sent me on the new Schermerhorn bike lane, instead of hurtling down Dean Street. By the time I was taking my return route, it was busy with cyclists.
\nFor Apple to know the lane was open, it had to have updates from the Adams\u2019 administration, as well as, presumably, hundreds of other city governments around the world. How was the company pulling it off? And it\u2019s not just cycling: it also knows the placement of the trees in Central Park, when the bus is coming, and whether a dive bar takes contactless payments or is cash only. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engineers\u2019 work on cycling and public transit have transformed the app \u2013 but rural directions remain a sticking point In October 2022, New York City officials unveiled a new bike lane on Schermerhorn street, one of the most dangerous and heavily trafficked streets in downtown Brooklyn and somewhere I had always avoided on my bike. …<\/p>\n

A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}