San Francisco, California
Since Apple isn’t publishing a list of all the 3D cities in its snazzy “Flyover” mode in Apple Maps, we’ve compiled the most complete list available — more than 60 3D cities in all.
Apple has quite a few more 3D cities in the current version of Maps than the meager handful that were available during the beta period. Digging around the app (and the ‘Net), here are all of the 3D cities we’ve been able to find. If you find any new cities or suburbs not on this list, please let us know in the Comments area.
Australia
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
New Zealand
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
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 Rome, Italy  Sydney, Australia  Las Vegas, Nevada  London, United Kingdom  Cupertino, California  San Francisco, California
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Also worth mentioning: since the app has fairly accurate terrain mapping, you can see a good 3D map of the Grand Canyon in Apple’s Maps, along with other natural landmarks like Niagara Falls. Hoover Dam is also available in full 3D, including all of its structural details.
Last updated November 20, 2013.
173 thoughts on “Complete List of 3D Cities in Apple Maps”
Robin
There is one location that was done in full “flyover” 3D some time ago, but is not mentioned in your list (although it is mentioned in various comments).
Indeed, at the end of the list you add
“Also worth mentioning: since the app has fairly accurate terrain mapping, you can see a good 3D map of the Grand Canyon in Apple’s Maps, along with other natural landmarks like Niagara Falls.”
But as you imply, these are not “flyover” locations, but just aerial photos projected onto local contours. They can be impressive, but nothing like the detail of flyover.
But the Hoover Dam was done in full Flyover detail some time ago. The new bridge is particularly spectacular.
Perhaps we need an extension to the list for “Other Flyover Locations” that are not simply part of an otherwise listed city area (so not the Statue of Liberty)
Thanks, Henry! I’m adding it now.
I found Helsinki, Finland has a flyover (it is very good). Some of the ones on your list don’t show as having flyover’s to me (like Copenhagen, Denmark, maybe I am doing something wrong though).
Auckland – New Zealand
Auckland flyover is the best flyover made so far. Road signs, gaps under bridges are auto generated. The trees at last look like real, you can see palm stems.
I don’t think Google will reach that level of detail any time soon
Add Bakersfield CA
Fresno CA also
Also Alicante, Spain
70 cities mark achieved! Maybe it would be better to organize the USA cities by state?
Actually it is about 80 cities, judging by this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_(application)
Google has between 70-80:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Buildings_in_3D
But in my opinion it isn’t about the quantity, it is about the quality. Apple has lots of major cities, while Google has less major cities and more minor. And I am not talking about the quality of imagery…
I’m seriously considering that, now that the list is getting so long. Going to be on vacation soon, but this is on my agenda for when I get back!
Milwaukee, WI
If you are going to start sorting cities by states, I think you should sort cities by population within the selected state, not alphabetically.
It might make more logical sense that way, in terms of the rules of mapping and whatnot. But we still put the user experience first, and the majority of users still look things up alphabetically.
I sorted the cities by states, alphabetically on Wikipedia page.
It doesn’t feature Cupertino because it is very close to San Jose.
Valencia, Spain
There is a big extension to the north of Manchester (England) including small towns like Rochdale, Oldham, Bolton, Bury, Heywood, Wigan, Horwich, Leigh, Ramsbottom, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Looks like they reshot the whole Manchester too, but I can be wrong
Certainly bridges, gantries and other overhangs are much better.
But I think that they’ve “just” reprocessed the existing photos. The “Art Africa” advertisement on the town hall extension was early 2012.
Which suggests that the processing power to build the models is not currently the bottleneck.
I say “just”, because the processing power that they must be using for that, blows my mind. I strongly suspect that that is why the “outbuilding” next to the North Carolina data centre, has so much cooling around it.
San Antonio, TX
Mount Rushmore, SD
Bordeaux, France
Christchurch, New Zealand
I was checking it today, and I didn’t see anything special with that town unless people want to see an aftermath of earthquake
It seems they have reprocessed Rome as well. Trees and buildings looks nicer especially if you compare it against the screenshot in this page.
Indeed.
All the columns are now columns and you can see through all the arches.
Search for Palatine hill and the Colossem for a real treat.
They’ve also reprocessed Lyon, France
Add Leeds. U.K.
Really? I can’t see it
It’s there. You’ll have the old version cached.
Ah, got it now, huge update to poi’s across the UK too, my town is still not great but way better than before
@bloshruk
Examples?
Look at any town now in the uk, at least in West Sussex were I am there’s at least 3x the number of poi’s
Also New York City was expanded
Saint-Étienne, France
Seville , Spain
Gibraltar
La Linea, Algeciras Spain
Marseille, France
Cape Town, South Africa
Marseille, France
I guess those two, among others have already been added to the Wikipedia page.
Wigan UK
Bolton UK
They’ve been there since mid august 2013
Perugia, Italy
Well worth a look. An old fortified hill town.
Ancona, Italy
Aix en Provence, France
Hey brah ur missing GIBRALTAR and the city right across the border in SPAIN
It seems I have found an official list from Apple. Look form Maps: Flyover at https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/
It’s missing a few, but lists
Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
which hasn’t been previously listed
St. Tropez, France
Perth, Australia was added a few days ago.
Stonehenge.
Tokyo, Japan
Been waiting ages for this! Wonder if they were hoping it’d be ready for WWDC?
Zion National Park
London, UK (Extended)
Yosemite National Park added
Wellington
Having explored, I’d say this is another step up in quality.
The handling of the coastline in particular is stunning
Cork, Ireland
They definitely have improved something, Cork release seems the best so far.
Nassau, in the Bahamas
Belfast, UK
Durban, South Africa
Bari, Italy
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Arhus, Denmark
Malmo, Sweden
Gothenberg, Sweden
Sorry, Gothenburg, Sweden
Turin, Italy
Budapest, Hungary
Sapporo, Japan
Nice find! Out of curiosity how do you mange to find so many undocumented places?
Strasbourg
Huelva, Spain
Badajoz, Spain