Apple’s 3D City View feature within its Maps app continues to progress, and it’s nifty.
Apple on Thursday announced that its Apple Maps application now offers 3D City View and enhanced navigation in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Some of the 3D landmarks that Canadians will see include Biosphere in Montreal, City Hall of Toronto, and BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. The features were already available in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and London.
Aside from the 3D landmarks, Apple Maps now have more road details to help Canadian drivers navigate cities easily. Apple Maps will display turn lanes, medians, bus, and taxi lanes and crosswalks more clearly than before. This will make it easier to navigate busy intersections.
New pedestrian-focused features include better immersive walking directions that use augmented reality, enhanced traffic updates, cycling directions, and curated guides.
Where privacy is concerned, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior Vice President of services, offered the following:
Any data collected by Maps while using the app, including search terms, navigation routing, and traffic information, is associated with random identifiers that regularly reset to prevent connecting search and location data stored on the server to a unique user.
If you live in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver and have seen these new features, please let us know in the comments.
Via The Mac Observer and Apple