Flyover is a feature on Apple Maps that allows users to view certain areas in a 3D setting. Flyover also allows users to take "tours" of these locations through the City Tours feature, showcasing various landmarks in the area. Imagery is provided through the use of planes, which collect fine data on buildings.
Initially founded in 2012, along with Apple Maps itself, Flyover now covers over 300 cities, landmarks, and parks across five of the six inhabited continents through a series of several expansions, notably in 2014, 2015 and 2019. Despite earlier issues, Flyover has been praised for its detail and uniqueness.[3]
History
2012 - 2015
Flyover was announced along with Apple Maps at the WWDC 2012, and was also released alongside Maps in September 2012.[4] The 10 initial cities that first received Flyover were Chicago, Copenhagen, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle and Sydney.[5] More cities would receive Flyover in later years, with Apple often adding multiple cities to Flyover at a time.[6][7] In addition to this initial release, Apple added the feature to other cities later in the year, including Toronto in Canada.[8]
In 2013, Flyover was added to Paris, as well as smaller cities such as Indianapolis and Baltimore, totalling 16 cities in the United States, Germany, Canada, France and the UK.[9][10] In addition, Flyover was also added to London, Barcelona, Cologne,[11] Rome, and Madrid,[12] as well as the city of Vancouver, in Canada the same year.[13]
Flyover was added to several cities and national parks in New Zealand, France, the United States, South Africa, Sweden and Japan, including Cape Town and two Arizona National Parks in 2014,[14] with Marseille, the second-largest city in France, receiving Flyover coverage later in the year as well,[9] The capital of Japan, Tokyo, also received Flyover that year.[15] along with Wellington, New Zealand and Yosemite National Park.[16] In addition, the City Tours feature, which allows users to tour locations supported by the Flyover feature, was also added around this time.[17]
South Africa, the only African nation to have Flyover, also first saw the feature with Cape Town in 2014, with Durban and Johannesburg receiving the feature in later years.[18]
Guadalajara, the largest city in Mexico to have the feature, also received Flyover in 2015.[26] Japan also saw more cities with Flyover, with Nagoya, Osaka and Hiroshima receiving the feature in 2015 as well,[27] and Mannheim and Stuttgart in Germany also received the feature that year.[28]
2016 saw Apple add Flyover to around 20 additional cities, including cities such as Adelaide in Australia and the Virgin Islands, with the majority of the new cities being smaller ones, as only two of the cities that received Flyover that year had over a million people.[18][31]
2019 saw one of Apple's biggest Flyover expansions, with the feature being added to over 30 cities in France, Japan, the United States, and others, as well as the entirety of the nation of Monaco.[32][33]
After 2019 and during the COVID-19 pandemic, relatively little progress was made with the feature, largely in favor of working other newer features. However, Apple added some new Flyovers during and since then, expanding to Amsterdam in 2020[34][35] and Vienna in 2023.[36]
Another major rollout of Flyover occurred in 2024, with dozens of cities across North America, Australia, and Europe receiving the feature, including Washington D.C.[37] and Kansas City.[38]
Use
Apple collects the 3D data used for Flyover by using small military-grade[39]drone-like planes, which fly up close to buildings to create a more detailed map. Since 2013, C3 Technologies, a Swedish company which was acquired by Apple in 2011, has collected the data used for Flyover.[40]
With Flyover, certain locations – mostly big cities, landmarks and some national parks – can be seen from a birds-eye perspective. The three-dimensional views are photo-realistic, and users can change the vantage point on the map.[41]
Flyover imagery has been viewed as similar to that of virtual reality, and could possibly be a precursor to a VR feature on Maps.[3][42]
City Tours
Flyover City Tours were released around 2014, but was inaccessible for a time until the feature was debugged by an Apple Maps developer, making it public.[17] City Tours is a feature that allows users to view various landmarks in a given city via a "flying" animation,[3] a feature only available to cities that already contain Flyover 3D maps.[43] City Tours was added as a feature to Apple Maps on iOS 8 on September 17, 2014, and in OS X Yosemite on October 16, 2014.[44]
Most, but not all cities with Flyover allow tours of a given city, where the above virtual tour of various landmarks in the area will be shown.[45][43]
Coverage
Flyovers are available in over 350[46] cities and national parks across 29 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, as of 2024.[47][a]
Similar to Maps itself, Flyover saw many visual issues upon release, a notable one containing a massive glitch on the Brooklyn and Anzac bridges in New York and Sydney, showing "plunges" on both structures.[48] This was part of a larger series of technical issues with Apple Maps, most of which have since been fixed.
Security concerns
In 2013, the Norwegian government denied a request by Apple to add Flyover to Oslo, the Norwegian capital, citing security concerns arising from the amount of detail given to buildings, information which could potentially be used to facilitate and carry out terrorist attacks.[49][50][39] The decision was met with criticism from Fabian Stang, then mayor of Oslo, who called for the Norwegian government to allow Apple to add the feature, citing the possibility of increased tourism from the addition.[50][51] A spokesperson for the National Security Authority of Norway stated that obtaining the needed imagery from a "Norwegian supplier" or from the Norwegian Mapping Authority could potentially assist Apple in adding the feature.[52] The US embassy in Norway also stated its support for Apple in adding the feature.[53] Flyover was eventually added to Oslo in late 2023, 11 years after the initial incident. Similar security concerns may have also prevented Apple from adding Flyover to other potentially sensitive areas, including Washington D.C. (which eventually got the feature in May 2024), among others.[49]
^Note that 3D coverage is generally not limited to the cities targeted for Flyover (see below) and often covers surrounding towns and communities in the area. For example, Cologne and Düsseldorf both have Flyover, and in addition to their coverage, all areas between the two cities, such as Solingen and Leverkusen, also have Flyover.
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