Monday, December 9th, 2019

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Driving to work today, a car with a pole-mounted camera contraption mounted on top of it turned onto the street in front of me. I wasn't close enough to see a logo on it, but thought it might be a Google Maps Street-view car. I snapped a couple of quick photos of it before it took another turn away from me.

If the car was taking photos, I wondered if I'd eventually see my own car on the street when browsing Google maps.

Doing some searches this evening, it appears to instead have been an Apple Maps vehicle.

The car and camera looked exactly like the one shown on this page:
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-new-apple-maps-subaru-cars-spotted-in-los-angeles-2018-10

It even had a California license plate like that one, starting with 8DJJ.

Apple calls their street-view-like feature "Look Around":
https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/06/street-view-look-around-apple-maps/
https://www.idropnews.com/gallery/ios-13-is-finally-here-with-these-14-new-features/107325/10/

Apparently Apple Maps can't be browsed on a webpage like Google Maps.

Per this page, the Look Around feature is only available on iOS 13.
https://www.idropnews.com/gallery/ios-13-is-finally-here-with-these-14-new-features/107325/10/

Our iPad (which was given to Qiao as a gift 7 years ago) has iOS9 and us not being big Apple fans, we have no intention of upgrading it. So, oh well. Guess I won't be able to try out Apple Maps and its Look-Around.

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