Apple brings detailed city maps to Canada

Apple Maps’ more detailed, three-dimensional cities launched with iOS 15 are coming to Canada, bringing better driving navigation, transit directions, and an augmented reality hiking experience. The company has announced that that the new city experience is available in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The feature was previously available in half a dozen US cities – Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, DC – as well as London in the UK.

It’s a welcome addition. If we reviewed iOS 15 last year Our only real issue with the extended mapping experience was the extremely limited availability. But, where available, it offers a significant improvement in how cities look in Apple’s software and even includes 3D models of major landmarks. From a functional point of view, these improvements help with directions, e.g. B. show more details about which lanes to use.

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Along with driving navigation, public transit directions will also be improved in the added cities. Apple Maps gives you a notification when it’s time to get off, and there are also interface improvements such as B. The ability for users to pin their favorite transit lines to make their favorite routes more readily available. Hikers will also benefit, being able to get step-by-step directions in augmented reality while cycling directions (a feature originally created by came to Apple Maps with iOS 14) are now also available in Montreal.