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2019: On the Crimea Apple cards at last it is displayed as the Russian territory

At the end of November, 2019 it became known that Apple recognized the Crimea the Russian territory. The company made corresponding changes to the cartographic service.

That the Crimea is marked in Maps Apple as a part of Russia, the head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Activity Vasily Piskarev according to the results of a meeting with representatives of the company reported.

It became known that Apple recognized the Crimea the Russian territory. The company made corresponding changes to the cartographic service

Today they reported that they, will consider, the error is eliminated. Reflection in a geoproduct of Apple happens in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation — the parliamentarian said.

Earlier in Apple services paid attention in the State Duma to territorial ownership of the Crimea. Deputies urged the American corporation to eliminate defects. Later in the lower house noted that Apple corrected display of the peninsula everywhere, except the Weather application where Ukrainian were certain cities.

According to Vasily Piskarev, further the question of display of the Crimea in Apple services will be controlled. He also added that as the company is the commercial organization, this situation hardly has political character.

Piskaryov showed to the press of a photo, showing that the Pogoda service displays the cities of the Crimea now — Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta and others — as belonging to Russia.

According to senator from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabayeva, elimination of inaccuracy in designation of the Crimean cities in Apple applications where earlier the peninsula was designated as the territory of Ukraine, does not mean that in the West recognized the Crimea Russian, however it is the first step to the truth.

Remarkably, as over the ocean understand obvious things. But it is surprising that five years for this purpose were required. Besides, unfortunately, do not recognize the Crimea Russian at the level of the states in the USA and Europe. But I think eventually the truth will prevail — she reported TASS.[1]

2018: Use of pedestrian operators for shooting of the area

In the fall of 2018 it became known that Apple decided to make the cards more precisely, sending for shooting of the area of pedestrians with powerful cameras in backpacks. As the company reported, during the period between November 26 and on December 23 the pedestrian staff of Apple will work in the Californian districts of Alameda, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San-Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. With other states the company did not announce further work plans yet.

The first pedestrians of Apple conducting shooting for Maps Apple were noticed in San Francisco in October, 2018. They were distinguished by backpacks with a text of "Apple Maps, maps.apple.com" and also cameras and sensors similar to those that are set on the Maps Apple cars. Thanks to teams of pedestrians it is going to meet lacks and to collect data which are unavailable when shooting from the car. Maps Apple will display green plantings, buildings, parkings, sports grounds and many other things more precisely. Many of these improvements are already available in iOS 12 in California.

The employee of Apple conducting shooting of the area for Maps Apple service

The project objective consists not only in increase in accuracy of cards, but also in creation of own full-fledged base of geospatial data of Apple. In June, 2017 the company read plans for transition to own cards that will help to solve the problems connected with the current dependence on third-party services.

We wanted to bring [application] to new level. We work on the fact that as it seems to us, will become the best cartographic application in the world — the vice president of Apple for Internet services Eddie Kyyu said to the website of TechCrunch.

The following steps which are planned by Apple: more frequent updates, routemaps for pedestrians, use of satellite pictures and images with high resolution.^[2][3]

You See Also

• Google Maps, Google Earth
• Here HD Live Map
• Yandex.Maps, Yandex. Navigator
• Maps.Me
• Navitel Navigator
• Roskosmos: Digital Earth

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