If you are a regular Apple Maps user, you have probably seen the Look Around feature, this is Google Street View’s competitor. For several years now, Apple has circulated its vehicles to capture the streets of several cities in the world in 360 °. Result, when you want to know what the address looks like you need to go, you just have to press Look Around to see recent images.
Look Around is available in two new cities
It’s probably one of the features that takes the longest to develop, but Apple continues to move heaven and earth to bring Look Around to as many users as possible around the world.
It all started in 2015, Apple began to circulate several vehicles equipped with twelve cameras and LiDAR sensors, their missions are to collect as much data as possible to develop a functionality similar to Street View. In just 6 years of existence, Apple already offers a multitude of cities with the Look Around function, we find:
- United States: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oahu, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle and Washington DC.
- Japan: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Takamatsu and Tokyo.
- Ireland: Dublin.
- United Kingdom: London and Edinburgh.
- Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
After several weeks of circulating its vehicles, Apple has added two new cities for the United States, are San Diego and Portland. It is now possible to have a 360 ° representation of the entire city!
Regarding Look Around in France, several regions have already been traveled by Apple cars, the Cupertino company has openly said to have visited several cities in these regions: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brittany , Center-Val de Loire, Corsica, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Normandy, New Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
For the moment, the date of availability of Look Around in French cities is still confidential, but one thing is certain is that it should not delay any longer since the work seems to be progressing well.
How to use Look Around?
When you enter the address of a city eligible with Look Around, you will have an icon that represents binoculars. You just have to press it so that the plane switches to a 360° image, to move, you just have to press twice quickly in the direction you want to go.