At the beginning of April last year, the new Apple Maps view was launched in several countries, including Hungary, which offers a more detailed and, not least, more exciting, navigation option within everyone's reach. Apple's variant of Google Street View, Lookaround, was also launched at the time, which provides an interactive street-level view with high-resolution 3D images.
At that time, the road database usually consisted of two-year registrations, which, according to reader feedback, the company recently updated with registrations registered in 2023, collected during the latest survey. In the service, you can already search in popular locations such as Margaret Island, Varosliget or Nebliget, but not only in the capital, but also in the area of other cities, recent photos are included (mainly from last year), which may soon be more recent.
Apple Maps support page Sure Information spotted by our reader: Apple cars have been driving on the country's roads again from April 15 until July. In addition to Budapest, Cupertino's vehicles can be found in Southern Great Plain, Southern Transdanubia, Northern Great Plain, Northern Hungary, Central Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia, and several in Szeged and Debrecen. It was filmed the cars.
Beyond the High Horizon: Employees and Others
Above the higher level of experience, there are some strange steps and expectations hidden behind them.
Last spring, he collected data to update the company's mapping service, which he supplemented at the beginning of the summer with pedestrian surveys in locations difficult to reach by car using the backpack system. Apple confirms that even during such activities it applies the usual data protection measures for data collection vehicles in Apple Maps, that is, it hides faces and license plates in the images displayed in the Lookaround function, and it is also possible to request the masking afterwards on the interface created for this purpose.
Several years ago, Apple decided to transform the somewhat static-looking Apple Maps app, putting more detailed information on the map and depicting buildings and landmarks in 3D. The map update began in September 2018 in the United States and was completed by January 2020 for the entire territory of the country, followed by a rollout in large Western European markets – the update round with the Scandinavian region was completed in March. Last year, it was then included in the trial round last April, in addition to Hungary, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.
