Ah, the Google Car … Perhaps you’ve seen happen in your street a few years ago. Responsible for carrying images from the Google Street View application, this white and green car was topped by a spar and a large globe strapped with objectives that can shoot 360.
Another car it is now competition, the Apple Plans, the giant’s mapping app to Apple now on iPhone and iPad.
The Great Loop hardly over, this is indeed Apple begins its Tour de France. 2.0 The vehicles of the brand apple peel, since Monday today, the roads of France. Their mission: 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 United States. in spring, followed by Britain and Ireland (Google vehicles travel the world for ten years and have them crossed over 50 countries, ie) .
From August 1 in Ile-de-France
On its website, and Apple says these vehicles, who scrutinize the province should borrow, from 1 August, 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 so far offers a standard view in 3D satellite ouen 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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