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Apple Maps Could Factor Parking Into Your Arrival Time

Apple Maps GeneralApple may be working on a way for Maps arrival estimates that account for parking as well as the walk to your destination, according to findings shared by code explorer pdfu. A new "TimeToPark" flag in the iOS 27.3 beta apparently allows the system to measure time spent near a destination before parking, plus walking time afterwards.

The measurements use background location and motion data, with results saved per trip and grouped by weekday and hour. However, pdfu says the feature can only be enabled on internal installations, and no Maps feature uses the data yet. In other words, watch this space – parking-aware ETAs could yet become a thing.

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nightflight82 Avatar
3 hours ago at 04:57 am
What Apple Maps needs to incorporate is that when you navigate to a store or business, Apple Maps should inform you of the closing times.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 hours ago at 04:32 am
Can be very useful at certain locations. Possible that it will roll out only in a few countries in the near future.
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1 hour ago at 06:32 am

Curious where they’re getting real-time parking data of any kind. Are they estimating it based on the movements of other iPhones? I know some parking structures have sensor- or camera-based occupancy data and I could see tapping into that, but no idea how they could possibly estimate availability of street parking.
Seems like yes, they are noticing that people continue to wander in circles after they arrive.

This could be useful in conjunction with suggesting a parking garage as the destination rather than the actual address, as well.
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2 hours ago at 06:21 am
Deleted and switched to Google Maps already.
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2 hours ago at 06:07 am
Curious where they’re getting real-time parking data of any kind. Are they estimating it based on the movements of other iPhones? I know some parking structures have sensor- or camera-based occupancy data and I could see tapping into that, but no idea how they could possibly estimate availability of street parking.
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keksikuningas Avatar
3 hours ago at 04:58 am
knowing parking prices would be cool but requires cooperation with parking providers and that stuff is always very fragmented across a country or even a single city in my experience with different entities owning different lots / garages etc
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