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Apple makes user location data from Apple Maps available to help COVID-19 relief efforts

April 14, 2020

Via: The Verge
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Apple is now sharing aggregated mobility data from Apple Maps to help public health officials better understand changes in how people are moving in their communities, the company announced today. The data is accessible via an online tool, and Apple is making the complete dataset available for download as a CSV. The tool is similar to ones offered by Google and Facebook that show mobility trends using location data taken from smartphones.

Apple’s new website has mobility trends for “major cities and 63 countries or regions,” according to the company.

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