Above: Apple Maps; Image Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat

Apple has officially announced that it’s dispatching cars to city streets to “improve” Apple Maps. And it has revealed that it will be taking photographs on its jaunts — the clearest indication yet that it’s looking to launch a Google Street View competitor.

A new page on Apple’s website confirms that it’s driving its “Apple Maps vehicles” through a myriad of cities across the U.S., U.K., and Ireland from June 15 through June 30 to collect data — “some of this data will be published in future Apple Maps updates,” it said. The cars will be limited to a few localized areas within a handful of cities at first, including Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Dublin.....Continue Reading

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