Apple’s New Map, Expansion #15
France, Monaco, & New Zealand
July 2022
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After thirty-nine days of public testing, Apple’s new map data was expanded to France, Monaco, and New Zealand on July 7, 2022:
This is the fifteenth time that Apple has expanded its new map data since its public launch in September 2018:
...and France, Monaco, and New Zealand are the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth countries to receive it.
Covering 70.4 million people, this is also Apple’s fourth largest expansion to date, in terms of population covered:
After almost four years of expansions—and eight years of data collecting—Apple’s new map data now covers 19.0% of Earth’s land area and 9.4% of the global population (i.e., 743 million people worldwide):
BEFORE & AFTER
LOOK AROUND
In addition to adding new map data, Apple has also added Look Around imagery for most of France and New Zealand.
APPLE’S NEXT EXPANSION
After expanding to France, Monaco, and New Zealand, Apple is likeliest to expand next to the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) and Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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