I remember many years ago that if you wanted a program to give you a route to reach a destination, TomTom was used. It was the king, although in software Sygic was also worth it. Later, Google entered the field, launched its free maps and now it is the most used. In 2012, the apple company introduced the Apple Maps in iOS 6, if I remember correctly, and many were upset for offering something so vague. 12 years have passed since that time, the maps are better and they have also reached the web.
Maps have been in Apple's ecosystem – iOS, iPadOS and macOS – for a long time. Now if we go to this link, we will see an English version of Apple Maps... if you use "a supported browser." The quotes are not there by chance; They are there because browsers usually support almost everything, and the display of maps is no exception. According to those from Cupertino, these maps They are only supported by Safari, Edge and Chrome, on macOS or Windows.
Apple Maps are not available for Linux
This support is more of a decision than anything else. As with Shazam, if we install an extension to change the user agent or do it from the developer tools of any browser, and we tell it to use a "supported" browser, when we refresh we will see that it enters without problems. Without having programmed these Apple Maps on the web, I would swear that they have entered a list of supported browsers, and if you are not in it, that is, if "Linux" appears in the string of your user agent, what you will see will be this:
One more alternative
An important part of this news is the complaint, the complaint, the tantrum so that the different services do not treat us as second-class users or something like that, which costs nothing. For everything else, they are one more alternative. At the time of writing this article, in beta phase and only in English. It has an option to search, one with guides and another with directions in which we put a departure point and an arrival point and it indicates it to us in a list. If this changes in the future remains to be seen, and if there is an app for Android as well.
What it does not have, at least in this beta, is the 3D view. It has satellite view, but it cannot be tilted. It also doesn't have "Look Around," which is what Apple called the view-on-the-ground option.
So at the moment little and not too good.
Apple Maps from DuckDuckGo
If you are interested in Apple maps, for whatever reason, which may include privacy, you should know that you can access Apple Maps with a browser from Linux if you do it from DuckDuckGo. Doing it is very simple: you just have to put a city in the duck search engine and, on the right, click on the image of the area. You will enter Apple Maps. Now, just to see them; without route options and so on.
The options are never too much, and if you prefer open, forget about Google and Apple and stay with OpenStreetMap.