Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.

Instead, all of this suggests that Apple’s mapmaking process is increasingly automated—much like Google’s.

Given the pace of Apple’s U.S. expansion, it seems that Apple’s initial map, which it had spent four years making (and had hints of human labor), served as a training set for the extraction algorithms that are now accelerating Apple’s mapmaking effort.

And if that’s the case, it explains why Apple still expects to cover the entire U.S. by year’s end, even though there’s 48.6% left to go...

APPLE’S NEXT EXPANSIONS

Now that Apple’s new map covers more than half of the U.S...

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