Apple Maps Look Around

You can now use look around which offers a 360 degree photo quality views you can explore in maps to explore four cities.

Apple maps look around. City to gain the 3d street level imagery to compete with google s street view. The feature is seen as apple s answer to street view though the company continues to improve it with the addition of ar related place and directional information. Reported by macrumors the feature has now rolled out to some additional cities in japan including tokyo osaka kyoto and nagoya. The look around feature in apple maps is very smooth indeed when compared to google street view.

Specifically arkit s new location anchor feature appears to be enhanced by and maybe even directly dependent upon apple maps s look around imagery for localization. Apple this week has expanded its look around feature for apple maps to include chicago the latest major u s. Look around an apple maps feature introduced in ios 13 has today rolled out in some cities in japan allowing for a close up street level view of various locations and landmarks. Personally i ll take a chunky google street view versus not having any street level view in a city or area i m searching for.

The feature was reported as available in the new areas by ata distance on twitter. In select cities tap on a map or information card. During wwdc 2020 we saw hints that apple is taking a similar approach. Press the preview image and it should immediately expand to.

Look around the apple maps feature that provides 360 degree views of locations at ground level is starting to expand outside the us. Unusually for apple it s coming to japan before anywhere. To place location anchors with precision geo tracking requires a better understanding of the user s geographic location than is possible with. Tokyo osaka nagoya and kyoto.

Look around in maps on iphone view cities in the maps app in an interactive 3d experience that lets you pan 360 degrees and move through the streets. For a more immediate fullscreen view should also see a preview of the look around view under the address once apple maps pulls it up. Look around first introduced in ios 13 version of apple maps is a rival to google s street view that lets users explore various cities from an on the ground perspective.