![]() ![]() The entire Apple Maps Image Collection 2023 schedule for Japan was pulled just as it was due to start on February 1 then reposted in early March with new dates running three months shorter than the original schedule and a new collection area covering all unmapped sections of Aichi Prefecture. Apple starts with select key cities in a prefecture then gradually adds less populated cities and districts over several mapping seasons until an entire prefecture is mapped. ![]() They don’t bother with other classifications (prefectures, villages, towns, etc.), only cities and districts. You can only appreciate how big Japan is and how circuitous the roads are by driving them.Īpple has a simple formula for image collection in Japan: Cities + Districts = Prefectures. People assume entire prefectures have been mapped when this is not the case, easy to do if you don’t live here and imagine that Japan is a small, easy to map island country. Even Justin O’Beirne initially listed Japan as a 2023 new maps candidate then wisely removed it. There has been discussion on social media about when redesigned Apple Maps are coming to Japan, but most people are confused about how much is really mapped at this point. Yet redesigned ‘New Maps’ with Apple proprietary cartography seen in America and recent European rollouts remain an elusive goal after five years of Apple Maps image collection. This is the largest Look Around expansion in Japan since the August 2020 ‘Tokyo Olympics’ kickoff launch. ![]() ![]() Apple started rolling out Look Around expansions in Tokyo (including Tokyo Islands), Chiba, Shizuoka, Kyoto and Osaka on covering most if not all of the public roads in those prefectures, along with capital city or select city and district additions for Aichi, Hyogo, Gunma, Okayama, Fukuoka and Kumamoto prefectures. ![]()
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