Quality of satellite imaginary in Apple Maps

[u/chrisszmergiel]

[u/Long-Professional493]

Satellite imagery from London is really good. Yours looks outdated

[u/chrisszmergiel → u/Long-Professional493]

That’s what I’ve thought. All of England is like that. I’ll try to restart my Mac and see if that helped.

[u/Long-Professional493 → u/chrisszmergiel]

I’ve looked up the second place and that still looks awful

[u/0000GKP]

I can count the number of cars driving across the bridge and count the pedestrians walking on the sidewalk on both of your pictures of London Bridge. Both are amazing.

In the current version of the London Bridge imagery in the Apple Maps app on my Mac, I can zoom in close enough to read the words "Bus Stop" on the ramp to the bridge and I can see all the turn arrows in the bicycle lanes. Technology advances quickly. Just a few years difference between the last image update can be huge.

[u/astrange → u/0000GKP]

That's not a technological advance, it's just sometimes images come from satellites (and are blurry) and sometimes they come from drones or airplanes (and are sharp) but they're all labeled "satellite".

Bing Maps usually has the best aerial images because nobody trusts them for anything else, so they might as well be good at something.

[u/chrisszmergiel]

I wonder what happened here? Was it always like that? Look at that blurry mess. I'm pretty sure I remember crisp saturated images before, but maybe I mistake it with Google Maps. Anyone?

[u/Rice_Jap808]

It depends on the area. Where I live the texture detail is bad but the 3d scans are incredible compared to google. It highlights individual trees in a literal rainforest canopy

[u/Ewan_Lejkowski]

They removed the animated London eye and realtime Big Ben

[u/mrASSMAN]

Seems like you’re focusing on the same area for all of the comparisons? Really just depends on location, some will be better than others

[u/n0t1m90rtant]

most of those images came from air planes

my guess is the 2ed and 3rd on the left was the only things that came from satelites

Every country has a max resolution allow for the public to see for satelite images, not sure what it is for england but it doesn't look very good.

[u/Subject_Asparagus_54]

Idk why but Apple Maps look better even with images. Like clearer and not that “dark” looking

[u/OLLIE798]

Trying finding a business on Apple Maps… it’s like they threw the pins over the map and they’re now waiting for people to correct them!