Maps Look around IOS 13

This is what Apple has on the web site:

Look Around

Explore where you’re going before you get there with an immersive 3D experience that gives you a 360-degree view of a place. And enjoy smooth and seamless transitions as you navigate your way around.

Then in the footnotes, it says this:

The new map is available in select cities and states and will roll out across the United States by the end of 2019 and to more countries in 2020.

(look around) Available in select U.S. cities.

So far the only cities I’ve found to work are Cupertino, San Fransisco, Las Vegas, and San Jose. Does not work for Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Washington DC, St. Louis, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas...pretty much every American city that’s not on the west coast.

I mean they don’t have NYC up yet, it’s a definite stumble out of the gate.

They need hundreds of cars equipped with 360 degree cameras in hundreds of towns, cities and countries. Millions of person-hours. Google have it now but they have been driving on our roads for years now doing it. I wonder why Apple will bother with duplicating Google's work?

Same as "Satellite" pictures in Maps and Google Maps at lower altitudes closer to the streets are not satellite at all but small aircraft criss-crossing the areas with cameras. Usually it seems on sunny Sundays judging by the empty parking lots.

Maybe for reasons of climate change they could leave it to Google, but I guess one day the big G will want to charge us for its use and someone big needs to put up some competition.

Can we get a simple answer as to why we can access or see the binoculars that allow us to do the look around on our iPhones.

have upgraded to iOS13.

why can’t we see the binoculars

Ok I guess not available in our area.

thanks anyway

Type in “Cupertino”. You’ll see Look around binoculars then.

For your town you maybe need to wait, or maybe never.