The Great Loop barely over, it’s Apple who begins his Tour de France. 2.0 The vehicles of the brand apple peel, since Monday today, the roads of France. Their mission is to collect pictures and data to improve mapping application Apple Plans, the equivalent of Google Street View.
France is the fourth country traveled by cars Apple, after the States States, in spring, followed by Great Britain and Ireland (Google vehicles travel the world for ten years and have them crossed over 50 countries, Ed).
From 1 August in Ile-de-France
On its website, and Apple states that these vehicles, who scrutinize the province should borrow from August 1, the roads of Paris, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne. whites and greens, topped with a mast bristling riddled with cameras and remote sensors, they will bring a vision “immersive” Plans, which until here offers a standard view, satellite or 3D in some cities (Rennes). And the data should they also be used to enrich the placement of points of interest on the cards.
As a reminder, after sitting for five years on Google, Apple launched its own Maps application there nearly three years (available on iPhone and Mac). And after undergoing some critics denouncing rather random walks, the Apple brand has made a series of improvements, including the addition of traffic information and transit.
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