Since iOS 6,
Apple offers its own mapping solution,Plans. This new service has caused a lot of ink to flow and
often criticized for the unreliability of information
communicated.
Apple is obviously seeking to improve its solution with its new
acquisitions dontHopStop(seen here) etEmbark(vu is) in order to integrate,
for example, public transport.
Today it is rumored thatPlans will be greatly improved at
the occasion of the release ofiOS 8:
Plans would thus see its database supplemented by the work, the data
and the skills of companies recently acquired by Apple.
Points of interest would of course be in the spotlight with new
labels to make airports, parks, train stations, bus stops
buses, roads and highways easier to find. We are also waiting for the
public transport with the possibility of calculating a route via these
means of transport (bus, metro and trams in addition to the car or mode
pedestrian.
The design of Plans would also be revised with a more
'clean' and better visibility of the streets for example. This system would be
first offered to the largest American cities including San Francisco or New
York, then other countries could also benefit from the public launch
d’iOS 8, that is to say, a priori, in September to
time of presentation of theiPhone 6.
But, Apple is also working to integrate augmented reality into Plans in
incorporating the names of streets or buildings and houses around the user.
This information would then be displayed on the map overlooking the environment
captured by the iPhone camera. This system would also allow
to improve interior mapping with the help in particular of thePrime Sense company acquired
recently by Apple.
But it doesn't count finding augmented reality in iOS 8, this
project still requiring a lot of work before it can be proposed to the
grand public.
We will certainly have the opportunity to talk about it again between now and the conference.
WWDC developer in June during whichiOS 8sera
officially presented.
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