[pierrebai]

Sometimes, article have low information/length ratio.

This one has a ton information of information, but still fail to satisfy because it has a low point/information ratio. It just rambles on with data points and examples.

AFAICT, the points made are:

   * Apple switched from vans to subarus for data gathering. (IOW, they changed their data acquisition equipment.)
   * Their new equipment must be better, because Apple seem to have thrown away all data they acquired with vans.
   * Yet, they still lack tons of labels and mis-label / mis-place many buildings / store etc.
   * Apple seems to be processing data faster than they used to.

... and even these points are must of the shrug / why would I care category, except maybe the fact that most cities are not labeled.

Take-away: you're better off with google street view.

[ardy42]

> This one has a ton information of information, but still fail to satisfy because it has a low point/information ratio. It just rambles on with data points and examples.

On his front page, this article appear in this section:

> Research + Updates

> Material for future essays + updates to earlier essays

It honestly reads more like notes than an article.

[Terretta]

> they still ... mis-label / mis-place many buildings

On the contrary, that was in the traditional map.

The author’s actual point came after that: that Look Around didn’t have the same data quality issues, proving so free of such errors the author speculated whether they’re using manual labeling.