For me, Flyover seems to be one of those things that they just have to commit to now.
Shame.
Well, I use it almost everyday and am very glad its available. There are more uses to a 3D view of the world than just finding directions.
Now if only Apple can get Hop Stop integrated with maps sooner rather than later....
They're still wasting resources on this crud?
Useless, gimmicky feature and hardly the best way to view maps. Google Street view is far superior and more user friendly ... and that's hard for me to say given how much I loathe Google.
Wrong. Flyover is vastly superior to exploring places and get an overview of the situation, fast! Unless you want to look into an outdated window display of the store you’re going to, Google Street View is pretty impractical. If you actually lived in a city with flyover, you would understand that...
Useless, gimmicky feature and hardly the best way to view maps. Google Street view is far superior and more user friendly ... and that's hard for me to say given how much I loathe Google.
They're still wasting resources on this crud?
Useless, gimmicky feature and hardly the best way to view maps. Google Street view is far superior and more user friendly ... and that's hard for me to say given how much I loathe Google.
Just because you don't find it useful doesn't mean that other people don't. I like it to preview a city before I go to it. It's certainly not as useful as Street view overall but that doesn't mean it's not useful.
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To the contrary, Google street view has been very useful to me, getting I tel on where I am going to go, for example where the parking garage is located, what the building looks like from the front etc. Not impractical at all.
Is it just possible the Google Street view and apples flyover are both useful.
This is why I haven't touched Apple maps in years and will never use it
It does make you wonder why resources are being used on this.
Is it really a resource that offers something new, or simply a contest with Google who apple lost to years ago in regards to maps).
Transportation information has to be more important.
But then again, much of this is already available in google maps.
Of course it offers something new. Imagine when the whole world is mapped. How invaluable would that be to students of architecture, planning, geology, geography, history, military strategy, photography, cinema or meteorology. Imagine turning the page of your e-textbook and on the next page is the 3D environment where you can see for yourself how parts of the Earth formed, or where Ansel Adams was standing when he took his photograph, or why Omaha Beach claimed so many lives. If you can think beyond what you want today, there's actually something valuable and amazing happening with this technology.
And that's why I think it's nice that Apple is working on this, but shouldn't they be spending more resources to making these maps as useful (accurate, up-to-date maps, POIs, public transport info, etc...) as their competitors?
If Apple's goal with Apple Maps was to replace Google Maps (they ditched Google's app and replaced it with their own since iOS 6) shouldn't they provide at least the same basic functionality first?
They ARE spending more resources on the basics of their maps' functionality than they are on Flyover. Flyover only covers a teeny-tiny insignificant fraction of the mappable world.
As to whether they should hold off on any development of the flyover feature until after they are COMPLETELY done with everything else, I'd posit that they should find a cure for cancer before adding or correcting even one POI. The cure for cancer is more important, right? Next comes feeding hungry children. Somewhere way down on the list is adding public transportation info for people who are wealthy enough to own an iPhone, and all the things above it should be done first.
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