Apple brings detailed city maps to Canada
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XGB1)
A 3D view of Toronto's City Hall. | Image: Apple Apple Maps' more detailed, three-dimensional cities that launched with iOS 15 are coming to Canada, offering better driving navigation, transit directions, and an augmented reality walking experience. The company has announced that the new city experience is available in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. The feature was previously available in a half a dozen US cities - Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. - as well as London in the UK.
It's a welcome expansion. When we reviewed iOS 15 last year our only real issue with the enhanced mapping experience was its extremely limited availability. But, where available, it offers a sizable improvement to how cities look in Apple's software, and...