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We’re still waiting for London and other major cities in the UK to get 3D-ified, but in the meantime, Apple’s latest iOS 6 beta has brought with it glorious views of Birmingham and Manchester. It’s just a shame “Duncaster” isn’t quite the correct spelling.
The 3D buildings within Apple Maps are actually really impressive. The models aren’t just square boxes with image overlays. The Bullring, for instance, has a genuinely curvy side to it — it’s just a pity you can’t take your view down to street level. Still, once iOS 6 has officially hit your iPhone or iPad, hopefully we’ll have a fully-fledged Google Maps app written by Google to take you on your street-level tours.
Let’s hope Doncaster gets some attention. I guess Apple Maps are still in beta, but “Duncaster”? That’s just a bit crap, Apple. [Via 9to5Mac]
Thanks Howard and Chris!
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Goodness, they’re just like the 3D buildings that Google Earth on Android has had for over a year!
Yes, because Apple hasn’t just got into this line of software.
They themselves might have, but the companies they bought up for their mapping specialisation haven’t.
So, Pretty buildings, but not at street view level, be a good navigation app for pilots then.
It does call it “Flyover”
Isn’t it also a “flyover” that the Apple Maps Icon advises you to drive off.
What, you don’t have a flying car?
Don’t have a drivers or pilot licence, waiting for the Google driverless version.
Would be funny if Google didn’t release a Maps app for iOS just out of spite..
Spite is not Google policy, They leave that to Apple.
For a company that is all about getting people to use their services, it does seem a bit spiteful that they are pretty much completely ignoring WP7..
They are concentrating their efforts on OS’s people actually use, same as pretty much every developer. This is not spite it’s optimum use of resources. Hopefully Windows Phone 8 will do better.
Yeah, thats why Google goes out of their way to break third party YouTube and Google Maps WP7 apps
http://www.liveside.net/2011/03/31/microsoft-accuses-google-for-blocking-windows-phone-7-and-bing-access-to-youtube-metadata/
Interesting, assuming this is true and not just Microsoft whining, has there been any Google response to this.
Not as for as I know.
Yet they have no problem with concentrating their efforts on social networks that no one actually uses.
170 Million users is hardly nobody and before you question the validity of the figures I should point out the recent report about how many of facebooks users were actually nothing of the kind.
“now contestant say what you see…”
Dun Caster
“well done, and your prize is….. you now have a northern accent”
So now Doncaster will have to change their name to Duncaster because Apple says so. Or they’ll get their lawyers on it.
Yeah. People might as well send out some “I’ve moved” cards now.
Hahaha, you think people from Duncaster can read & write.
No, we people from Doncaster can’t possibly read or write. Actually I’m just dictating this to my PC and hoping for the best.
I feel like we’re 1 step closer to my childhood/teenage/adult dream of a GTA/getaway game where I can crash a car into my own house!
i would love if you could make up your own town for games.
then you can FPS, race or just GTA around your home town. all those shitty roads you wanted to do 200mph on that you know so well.
FPS action in my village would be cool. get holed up in my spare room taking people out…
http://geoquake.jp/en/webgame/DrivingSimulatorPerspective/
Not quite what you wanted but it’s a start.
Oh man, cheers for that, a start indeed! Just spent the past half an hour doing ‘Police, Camera, Action!’
“The reckless driver mounts the kerb at 60mph, with so much momentum that he barely slows down once he hits the roundabout.”
“The assailant hits 99mph, and finds himself driving off the edge of the world as google maps can’t load fast enough” (stoopid peak times ruining my procrastination!)
Zooming around and showing off aside, are they pushing this as being better than streetview as a tool to confirm what the place you’re trying to find actually looks like?
(On a totally unrelated note, I’m still finding Google’s new 3/4 birds eye view hateful…I can see where they’re trying to go with it, but at the moment the picutres in my area it look like the photos were taken with a first generation iPhone during an electrical storm…)
Nah, for actually seeing where you’re headed, I reckon Street View’s better. At least, when you get down to the finer details. It’s quite good for spotting that building you’re heading too, just not necessarily from the front.
Yeah, unless you’re looking for a place to crash-land your helicopter, knowing what a building looks like, from an angle, 100metres up, isn’t a terribly helpful guide if what you actually want is where the entrance is…
not that many will care but I hope the naming of Welsh towns and cites is correct. The google Maps naming is Ok, the Bing maps used to be absolutely shocking. Towns were 40 miles out! Seems better now though to be fair. I hope the OS6 maps are good, but look at an awesome app like http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recce-london/id539951375?mt=8 Recce London, It’s brill fair play.
It’s just my luck that it’s my town whose name is misspelt.
If anyone wants me, I’ll be sulking in a corner and mumbling anti-Apple obscenities.
Finally someone else has noticed this. Ive been emailing about this since 2009. I first noticed this on iPhoto from all my iphone pictures. Its still the same now on their new beta maps on iOS6. I also sent them a report from the phone on iOS 6 beta. I really hope they will change it.