Apple Maps' Acceleration

While it’s unclear how much of Apple’s new map is human-made vs. machine-made, these don’t seem like errors a human editor would make. Instead, they suggest that Apple’s mapmaking process is increasingly automated—much like Google’s.

Given the pace of Apple’s U.S. expansion, it seems that Apple’s initial map, which it had spent four years making (and showed hints of human labor), served as a training set for the extraction algorithms that are now accelerating Apple’s mapmaking effort.

And if that’s the case, it explains why Apple’s San Francisco map is now seems more up-to-date than Google’s—and why so many of Apple’s buildings have been adjusted since launch:

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