AppleInsider Staff
As part of a feature buildout to its in-house mapping service, Apple on Tuesday added seven international locales to its list of cities supporting Maps 3D Flyover.
The change in Flyover support is reflected on Apple's iOS 8 feature availability webpage under Maps, but also applies to the Maps app in OS X, as seen in the screenshot above.
New Flyover locations include:
- AlmerÃa, Spain
- Braga, Portugal
- Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Kiel, Germany
- Kingston upon Hull, Englad
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
Flyover was initially introduced as a standout Maps feature when Apple first moved away from Google Maps in iOS 6. Flyover combines high-resolution imagery and three-dimensional modeling technology to provide users with 3D visualizations of structures, major landmarks and points of interest.
Aside from platform-exclusive features, Apple is looking to catch up to more mature mapping services by introducing transit directions in iOS 9 and potential image-based navigation assets similar to Google Street View. Earlier this month, the company officially announced that so-called "mystery vans" spotted driving around the U.S. and Europe are indeed part of an initiative "to improve Apple Maps."
Apple last updated its rolling list of Flyover-capable cities in February with additions from Europe and the Americas.
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Hull?? What about Bristol and Cardiff that've got 430,000 and 350,000 people living there vs Hull's 250k!?
Why do you people insist on lumping Portugal with Spain? They are not the same country, and haven't been for most of their existence, except for a few decades during the late XVI to early XVII century… Your title is inaccurate/incomplete and misleading, so please update it accordingly. [And I don't care much for the fact that it would make for a 4-line title on mobile browsers, sorry… I am pretty sure you had longer ones before]
Why do you people insist on lumping Portugal with Spain? They are not the same country, and haven't been for most of their existence, except for a few decades during the late XVI to early XVII century… Your title is inaccurate/incomplete and misleading, so please update it accordingly.
[And I don't care much for the fact that it would make for a 4-line title on mobile browsers, sorry… I am pretty sure you had longer ones before]
Yeah, Portugal and Spain are different countries. Portugal is smaller. That's why it was dropped from the title. Why do you think it was 'lumped'? It was actually separated! /half joking
Why should I care about this feature.
It would be much more useful if they added the 'lane' navigation for Germany. So that when you drive you could also see the recommendation on which lane (e.g. second from the right) lane to drive to take the right direction.
Google Maps has it. That's the main reason why I use Google. Though from design I like Apple more.
Google Maps is just more functional and useful than Apple Maps.
Englad? Where is that?