Ever since Apple introduced Apple Maps in 2012, it hasn’t been as useful as it could be.
But mid Friday, the company revealed that it will be expanding their map coverage and usefulness, starting next week when Apple Maps will get limited first-party map data in the next iOS 12 beta update, and then expanding it as time goes on.
Next week’s first-stage rollout will cover just San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, expanding to northern California by the fall and the rest of the U.S. in the following year, the company told TechCrunch.
Apple hopes to be able to change the maps in real-time, by giving construction and traffic information – by using iPhones and their own fleet of Apple Map Vehicles, which are currently being used to help in gathering the data now.
In the reveal, Apple’s Eddy Cue said in a statement:
“We wanted to take this to the next level. We have been working on trying to create what we hope is going to be the best map app in the world, taking it to the next step. That is building all of our own map data from the ground up.”
At the moment corrections and updates need to pass submission and validation, but Cue indicated that the company will soon be able to change anything in Maps in real-time and even more frequently.
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