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Apple brings Maps Nearby, Flyover, and traffic features to more locations

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Apple has today updated its list of iOS 9 feature availability to note the addition of its Maps ‘Nearby’ feature for more countries.

The Nearby feature for Apple’s Maps app is now available in Austria, Denmark, Japan, and Switzerland. These new countries come in addition to Australia, Canada, China, France, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, and USA where the feature had previously launched, bringing the total up to 13 supported countries.

Nearby is the Apple Maps feature that presents users with close-by points of interest such as restaurants and retail stores, but it’s something Apple has slowly rolled out to select countries as it integrates its own and third-party data for the feature into Maps.

And in addition to the expansion for Nearby, Apple also added a handful of new Flyover locations for Maps and added Turkey to the list of countries that support traffic data.

The new Flyover locations include Augsburg, Braunschweig, and Hanover in Germany, Newcastle upon Tyne in England, and Niigata in Japan.

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Comments

  1. Dil Ribeiro - 8 years ago

    Unfortunately not in Brazil yet!

  2. Cool, thanks Apple (Switzerland here)!

  3. escruting - 8 years ago

    It’s available for me in Spain too since 9.3 launched. Why isn’t spain on the official list on apple’s site?

  4. daniesy - 8 years ago

    What about my country Apple? We’re paying you too!

    • realgurahamu - 8 years ago

      Patience. It has taken Google 20 years to get all the data they have now. Apple are getting there – at an even faster pace considering apple maps is only 3 years old

  5. crichton007 - 8 years ago

    As someone who travels to some out of the way locations for work (and some not so out of the way places where I live) I still feel like the quality of Apple Maps still isn’t up to par. It is still missing a lot of (relatively) new streets where I live (ones constructed within the last two years). Routinely locations are a little off. Not so off that I’m in danger of driving into a lake but on the wrong side of the street and a couple hundred feet off. Even the “Nearby” list is often incomplete when I think to use it.

    I really want to like Apple Maps because I have made a conscious decision to favor companies who value my privacy but all these years later Apple Maps still feels incomplete to me.

    • appgarlaschelli - 8 years ago

      I personally have not encountered these issues but I do agree there is still a lot of work to do on Apple maps. If you encounter these problems (e.g. missing streets, buildings or shops) you should signal that to Apple. You can report a problem within the maps app and from experience I can tell they get addressed pretty quickly (within a week or so). That way you can help improve Apple Maps for everyone and at the same time make it more useful for yourself

      • crichton007 - 8 years ago

        Trust me, I do but I still haven’t figured out how to report all of the issues when using iOS that I can when using OS X.

        Although missing streets is an issue that doesn’t get updated as rapidly as something like an incorrect location. Heck, I’ve reported a missing street while someone else is driving and the pin shows me in the middle of nowhere.

        To be fair most other mapping solutions that reply on third parties for street data are about as far behind as Apple is here but Goolge, Waze and Open Street Maps are years ahead of these other providers. They have other issues inherent to such immediate updates but my experience is that those are far fewer and less frustrating than not seeing streets on a map that have been in existence for over a year.

  6. Joel Breckinridge - 8 years ago

    Is this a Japanese product or just some westerner’s idea of one? A Review of Apple Maps Nearby Search in Japan:
    http://atadistance.net/2016/03/25/is-this-a-japanese-product-or-just-some-westerns-idea-of-one-a-review-of-apple-maps-nearby-search-in-japan/

  7. moringaid - 8 years ago

    After seeing this Birdie Sanders / Steve Jobs AD, U will vote Bernie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Lm1Mn3GWw

  8. Hany Boulos - 8 years ago

    Still not updated on their availability link.
    http://www.apple.com/ae/ios/feature-availability/

    besides when will they provide the basic directions and Navigation to the United Arab Emirates… ?

  9. Hamza Sheikh - 8 years ago

    Sounds interesting and good, but not available in my area :(

  10. Nigel Burrell - 8 years ago

    How about New Zealand?

  11. Andrew Williams - 8 years ago

    Nearby on CarPlay is a big dissapointment sadly. Today I was parked outside a major supermarket and petrol station in town (France) and that wasn’t even listed, instead it was suggesting totally irrelevant locations miles away. Shame, I was looking forward to that feature.

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