This is pretty nifty. Apple on Tuesday announced plans to expand its Today at Apple Creative Studios to additional markets, hoping to bring its efforts to more young creators from underrepresented communities around the world. This expanded program offers career-building mentorships, training and resources across disciplines, including all-new curricula in app design, podcasting, spatial audio […]
Roughly one year ago, Apple announced a huge change to its Maps app, stating that the company was completely overhauling its fundamental map data. The new data would expand upon what was there, now including buildings, rivers, roads, and vegetation in a vastly more accurate and detailed form. Apple began rolling out the new mapping […]
Apple Maps has apparently added the public transit data for Portland, Oregon, right on the heels of Montreal and Austin. The expansion comes a week after Apple Maps added transit directions for Montreal, the second-largest city in Canada. And just over a month ago, Apple also debuted transit in Austin, Tex., just in time for […]
iOS 9 will add transit directions to its Maps service, the new data including schedules for buses, trains, subways, and ferries and will be available in 10 cities at launch later this year. To answer the question as to where the transit data is coming from, Apple has updated its Apple Maps Acknowledgements webpage with […]
It’s Apple’s jobs page that tends to point to where things are going. Per AppleInsider, Apple is actively recruiting for scores of new full time jobs related to Maps. The company also plans to enlist the support of its installed base of 400 million iOS users with an opt-in invitation to “Help Improve Maps” in […]