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But that's what I don't like about the apple map. Check out the image where he says: > Regardless of how Apple is creating all of its buildings and other shape

But that's what I don't like about the apple map. Check out the image where he says: > Regardless of how Apple is creating all of its buildings and other shapes, Apple is filling its map with so many of them that Google now looks empty in comparison: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ff63f0e4b0bafce6932642/t/5bdb46f9898583b78153b620/1541097217246/1-46+Carmel+-+Google.gif?format=1500w https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ff63f0e4b0bafce6932... Yeah, the google view has a lot less green, but it's really a different kind of green -- it shows me where there's a public park I might visit. Apple's green is showing vegetation, but finding that regional park gets lost in the noise. If I wanted to find a place to visit, Google is the superior layout. If I want to get a sense of vegetation, I would just turn on satellite view!

puzzle 8y ago
Google does have vegetation and desert data, but you can see that it starts to fade around zoom level 5 in the US (at which you can only see a number of entire states and the names of major cities). If you go somewhere else on the planet, e.g. along the Amazon river, you see that the vegetation data reappears, only to start fading again at zoom level 11 or so. It's too irregular and following satellite imagery too closely to have been drawn from human sources such as parcel data. It must have been built from imagery. So it looks like it's a deliberate choice on Google's part to only use human-derived features such as a park's outline at most zoom levels, on most of the inhabited surface of the planet.
- londons_explore 8y ago
  Describing zoom levels as numbers isn't common... Do you work for a mapping provider?
  - puzzle 8y ago
    I used to work for Google, but not on maps. You can see the zoom level for yourself in the URL. Use the scrollwheel or its trackpad equivalent and the Z parameter in the address bar will change. That's where I got the numbers, not any special knowledge.
eridius 8y ago
> it shows me where there's a public park I might visit Google's map shows a relatively tiny bit of land that it labels as the regional park. Apple Maps, meanwhile, highlights a much larger area that it gives the same label. Based on the fact that Apple Maps is explicitly highlighting this area, I'm going to guess that it's correct and that entire highlighted area is, in fact, the regional park. So if you wanted to visit Garland Ranch Regional Park, wouldn't you prefer it to be accurately mapped, instead of represented as a tiny slice of green? Or if you meant that tiny bit of green in Caramel Valley, Apple Maps has it too, it just has a lot more green too that might be interesting if your goal is to visit bits of greenery stuck in the middle of towns.

puzzle 8y ago

Google does have vegetation and desert data, but you can see that it starts to fade around zoom level 5 in the US (at which you can only see a number of entire states and the names of major cities). If you go somewhere else on the planet, e.g. along the Amazon river, you see that the vegetation data reappears, only to start fading again at zoom level 11 or so. It's too irregular and following satellite imagery too closely to have been drawn from human sources such as parcel data. It must have been built from imagery. So it looks like it's a deliberate choice on Google's part to only use human-derived features such as a park's outline at most zoom levels, on most of the inhabited surface of the planet.

londons_explore 8y ago
Describing zoom levels as numbers isn't common... Do you work for a mapping provider?
- puzzle 8y ago
  I used to work for Google, but not on maps. You can see the zoom level for yourself in the URL. Use the scrollwheel or its trackpad equivalent and the Z parameter in the address bar will change. That's where I got the numbers, not any special knowledge.

eridius 8y ago

> it shows me where there's a public park I might visit Google's map shows a relatively tiny bit of land that it labels as the regional park. Apple Maps, meanwhile, highlights a much larger area that it gives the same label. Based on the fact that Apple Maps is explicitly highlighting this area, I'm going to guess that it's correct and that entire highlighted area is, in fact, the regional park. So if you wanted to visit Garland Ranch Regional Park, wouldn't you prefer it to be accurately mapped, instead of represented as a tiny slice of green? Or if you meant that tiny bit of green in Caramel Valley, Apple Maps has it too, it just has a lot more green too that might be interesting if your goal is to visit bits of greenery stuck in the middle of towns.