Report: Fly Drones Can Improve Apple's Map data To Fly t with Google

The tech giant, Apple is hoping drones can help the company and make more effective competitiveness against Google Maps, published from a new report.

According to Bloomberg report, Apple is building a team of robotics and data-collection experts that will use drones to fly overhead and capture critical street information, which includes signs and traffic changes. For that, the tech giant has secured approval from Federal Aviation Administration on the use of drones to capture photos, video.

The Cupertino, a California-based company wants to use flying drones around to do things like examining street signs, new construction area, and new track of the road. The data collected by drone would be sent to Apple teams that rapidly update the Maps. This updated Map will provide fresh information to users.

Besides the updated Maps, Apple is also developing new features for Maps, that include views inside buildings and improvements to car navigations and many others. Google already offers similar features in Google Maps.

Apple introduced their first mapping app in 2012 with glaring errors like incorrect airport addressres, wrong direction of a grocery store and hospital. This happened due to technology upgradation, and lack of data from many different sources to evaluate and change the digital maps, reported by Fortune.

Since then, Apple has made various technological update towards improving the app's accuracy and has added more information, including traffic, street direction etc. Users believe Apple's Maps will come with more accurate data and other key features like street direction and image of addresses etc.

According to Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president, "There's a huge data-quality and we need to do that on an ongoing basis". Apple is still assembling the team that will help the systems by taking advantage from the drone.

Meanwhile, Apple is expecting to get its indoor mapping service to Apple Maps next year at any time. This new technology would tell users when and where to change lanes during navigation.

But Apple is still silent on their new system.