Research Notebook
Research, updates, & material for future Essays
“A Brief Comparison of Google Maps, Bing Maps, & Yahoo! Maps” 2010
“A Year of Google & Apple Maps, Update #1” 2017
“Apple Adds Additional Los Angeles Area Landmark Models” 2021
“Apple Adds Cycling Directions for Barcelona, Toronto, & Vancouver” 2021
“Apple Adds Cycling Directions for Parts of the Midwestern U.S.” 2022
“Apple Adds Detailed Landcover to Navigation Mode Worldwide” 2021
“Apple Launches Apple Maps Web Portal” 2024
“Apple Making Labels Out of Its Shapes?” 2020
“Apple Maps & WWDC 2022: What Might Be Announced?” 2022
“Apple Maps Cycling Directions Now Covers All 50 U.S. States” 2022
“Apple Maps ‘Detailed City Experience’ Coming Soon for Orange County & Suburban Los Angeles?” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Detailed City Experience’ Current Coverage Areas” 2024
“Apple Maps ‘Detailed City Experience’ Outlook” 2023
“Apple Maps Increases City Label Density” 2021
“Apple Maps Indoor Airport Map Coverage—Top Global & U.S. Airports” 2022
“Apple Maps Las Vegas F1 Easter Egg” 2023
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’ Current U.S. Coverage Areas” 2019–2024
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #4: Boston, Philadelphia, & Washington” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #5: Chicago” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #6: Seattle” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #7: Tokyo, Osaka, & Nagoya” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #8: London, Dublin, & Edinburgh” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #9: Phoenix” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #10: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, & Takamatsu” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #11: Southern Canada” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #12: Denver, Detroit, & Miami” 2020
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #13: San Diego & Portland” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #14: Atlanta” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #15: Sendai & Kanazawa” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #16: Spain, Portugal, & Gibraltar” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #17: Italy & San Marino” 2021
“Apple Maps ‘Look Around’, Release #18: Suburban New York City & Suburban San Francisco” 2021
“Apple Maps Reduces City Label Density” 2021
“Apple Maps’s Missing Landmark Icons” 2023
“Apple Maps’s Missing Landmark Models” 2023
“Apple Maps’s 10th Anniversary is September 19, 2022” 2022
“Apple Outsourced Detailed 3D Building Creation to Game Studio” 2021
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Atlanta, Miami, & Seattle” 2022
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Chicago & Las Vegas” 2022
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Dallas-Fort Worth & Houston” 2023
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Madrid, Barcelona, & Lisbon” 2023
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for New York” 2021
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Paris & Cycling Directions for France” 2023
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Philadelphia” 2021
“Apple Releases ‘Detailed City Experience’ for Sydney & Melbourne” 2023
“Apple Releases ‘Look Around’ for Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, & Tampa Bay” 2023
“Apple Releases New Apple Maps ‘City Experience’ for Los Angeles in iOS 15 Beta 5” 2021
“Apple Starts Publishing Its Own Apple Maps Guides” 2021
“Apple Updates San Francisco 3D Building Models” 2021
“Apple Updating Areas Already Covered by New Map” 2020
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #1: Hawaii” 2018
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #2: Southern California” 2019
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #3: Southwest U.S.” 2019
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #4: Texas & the Gulf Coast” 2019
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S.” 2019
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #6: Parts of the Midwest & Western U.S.” 2019
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.” 2020
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #8: Puerto Rico, Guam, & the U.S. Virgin Islands” 2020
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #9: Ireland & the United Kingdom” 2020
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #10: Canada” 2020
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #11: Spain & Portugal” 2021
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #12: Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, & Andorra” 2021
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #13: Australia” 2021
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #14: Germany & Singapore” 2022
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #15: France, Monaco, & New Zealand” 2022
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #17: Finland, Norway, & Sweden” 2023
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #18: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, & Slovenia” 2023
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #19: Hong Kong, Slovakia, & Taiwan” 2023
“Apple’s New Map, Expansion #20: Denmark & Greece” 2023
“Apple’s Upgraded Cartography for Japan” 2020
“Apple’s WWDC 2020 Maps-Related Announcements—One Year Later” 2021
“Boiling Frogs: Google’s Cartographic Release Strategy” 2016
“The Countries Apple Cares About Most” 2022
“‘Detailed City Experience’ Release for Chicago & Las Vegas Likely Imminent” 2022
“Google Accelerating Building Footprint Generation” 2020
“Google Adds Traffic Light Icons to U.S. Maps” 2020
“Google & Apple Adjust Maps During Pandemic” 2020
“Google Maps Adds Apple-Style Landmark Icons” 2019–2020
“Google Maps Adds Bold Type for Place Labels” 2021
“Google Maps Adds Detailed Landcover” 2020
“Google Maps Adds Sidewalk Detail” 2019–2020
“Google Maps Adds Detailed Vegetation” 2019–2020
“Google Maps Adjusts Place Colors” 2020
“Google Maps Doesn’t Want to Lead You Down Dead Ends” 2011
“Google Maps Releases Detailed Road Markings in 4 U.S. Cities” 2023
“Google Maps Rolling Out ‘Busy Areas’ Feature” 2021
“Google Maps ‘Street-Level Details’, Release #3” 2022
“Google Maps Testing Apple Maps-Style Micro POI Icons” 2021
“Google Maps Testing Detailed Road Markings in 4 U.S. Cities” 2023
“Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style” 2023
“Google Maps Testing Place Label Increase” 2021
“Google Maps Updates Landcover Detail” 2020
“Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: Hurricane Dorian” 2022
“Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: Indoor Airport Maps Coverage” 2022
“Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: 3D Landmark Buildings” 2019
“Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: U.S. & Canada 3D Imagery Coverage” 2021
“Google Maps vs. Apple Maps: U.S. State Highway Shield Icons” 2021
“Google Maps’s Moat, Update #1” 2017
“Google Maps’s Moat, Update #2” 2018
“Google Maps’s Moat, Update #3” 2018
“Google Maps’s 2016 Redesign” 2016
“Google Maps’s 2017 Redesign” 2018
“Google Releases Detailed Street Maps for More Cities” 2022
“Google Testing Address Number Labels on Google Maps” 2020
“Google Testing Highly Detailed Street Maps of New York, San Francisco, London, & Tokyo” 2020
“Google’s New Detailed Street Maps vs. Apple’s New Map” 2020
“The Growth of Google Maps’s ‘Local Guides’ Program” 2021
“How Long Has Apple Been Working on Apple Maps’s Redesign?” 2021
“How to Identify 3D Buildings Manually Adjusted by the Apple Maps Team” 2024
“iOS 15 Beta 2 Cartography Changes” 2021
“iOS 15 Beta 3 Cartography Changes” 2021
“iOS 15 Beta 4 Cartography Changes” 2021
“iOS 15 Beta 5 Cartography Changes” 2021
“June 29, 2023 Marks Five Years Since Apple Announced Its New Map” 2023
“List of Areas Surveyed by Apple Maps Image Collection” 2023
“List of Cities Surveyed by Apple Maps Backpack Collection” 2021–2022
“List of Custom Landmark Icons Added to Apple’s Redesigned Map” 2021–2023
“List of Countries Surveyed by Apple Maps Pedestrian Image Collection” 2021–2022
“List of Landmark Models Added to Apple’s Redesigned Map” 2021–2023
“List of Physical Feature Labels Added to Apple’s Redesigned Map of California” 2021
“List of 3D Landmarks Added to Apple’s Redesigned Bay Area Maps” 2021
“Navigation Mode Detail in Earlier Versions of Apple Maps” 2021
“Number of Daily Map Updates—Google Maps & Apple Maps” 2021
“Reader Poll Results: Apple Maps 3D Models” 2023
“Reader Poll Results: Rate the Quality of Apple Maps’s Cycling Directions” 2022
“Reader Poll Results: ‘Which new Apple Maps feature do you want most?’” 2022
“Screenshots of Apple Maps’s Redesign” 2021
“Summary of Google Maps Announcements at Google I/O 2021” 2021
“Timeline of Countries Covered by Google’s & Apple’s Proprietary Map Data” 2021
“Uber’s New Map” 2016
“Why Does “Look Around” Cover All of Italy, Portugal, & Spain—But Still Only a Fraction of the U.S.?” 2021
“Why is ‘Look Around’ Rolling Out So Slowly?” 2021