Apple backpacks are what makes Apple cards special. And now they are in USA

If you cross the street with someone wearing a bulky backpack with the Apple logo, don't think he's a brand fan with a limited publishing accessory. It's a Advanced portable system of the image and space data system that the company uses to improve the experience of Apple cards.

The mail recently saw one of these operators in the streets of Bilbao. It is not the only one, since Apple has several equipment deployed in different areas of USA Between March and July. All this in a data collection campaign which is part of its calendar for improving the usual Apple cards.

What does a man love him with a backpack like that?

Like Google with its GOOLE MAPS cards, Apple has a fleet of vehicles equipped with sensors for Cartography roads, streets and rural roads. Since 2018, they also have “men of backpack”, who travel restricted to car traffic, such as helmets or historic parks.

Vehicles and backpacks are equipped with A computer vision system which includes high -resolution panoramic chambers, Lidar sensors, precision GPs and even inertial units (IMU).

Thanks to this combination of 2D and 3D sensors, you can capture spherical images, reconstruct the geometry of the environments and determine the exact position of the elements such as the traffic lights. They even serve estimate how long it will take to go from a point to otrOr, either walk or in any other vehicle.

All this information is then processed by Apple Maps Systems, using a series of algorithms that they intend, is Correct failures and locally locate all elements of public roads. Thus, we may have precise information on roads and sidewalks, as well as on buildings and parks.

“ Look around you '', the place where Apple Maps reflects the work of cars and backpacks

360 ° images captured both backpackers and cars are also used to improve “look”. It's a Street mode that integrates Apple cardsSimilar to the “street view” of Google Maps. The idea is that we can travel from the place of the iPhone, the iPad or the Mac as if we were there, be able to move back and go back, in addition to turning at any angle and seeing the environment.

This function It is not available in the worldAlthough largely. In USA, for example, it is not only in major cities, but also on many secondary roads and small cities. In fact, it is currently known that they have captured images with a backpack in Basque cities such as Barakaldo, Erandio, Leioa or Getxo.

HAS Know if you can access the “look around”You can put the bug on the map and, if an icon is prismatic, it means it is activated. By pressing this icon, this street mode will open and you can move around with your fingers (or with the pointer, if you use a Mac).

In which part of Apple Maps USA works

As counted on the Apple website, this year we can find backpacks and vehicles throughout our geography Trying to capture new images, update the previous ones or add for the first time those in these areas which so far had not.

These are the provinces and the dates that Apple scores for the “march” of its cars and backpacks. In some of them, they have already passed:

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