Question

I don’t even know if this is possible. When looking at Apple maps at a certain zoom level, certain streets are visible. Is it possible to get a list of all the visible streets, and latitude and longitude of all the direction changes? I guess if one gets a starting point of the street and the ending point of the street (addresses), I suppose one could get a “route” of geo locations and be able to draw a polyline, and I guess that would be one way of getting a list of geo locations. However, I am at a loss as to how does one get a list of all the visible streets.. Ideally I would like to be able to eventually figure out programmatically the geo location of street intersections.. Any ideas?

Answer 1

That street vectors you cannot get via an api.
Some countries have published their street data. Then you find them in OpenStreetMap
The data Apple uses are from TomTom which bought TeleAtlas. You can get test data from them, but for a real project it really gets expensive, so that makes in nost cass no sense for an app.
The only app that uses that data is from TomTom itself.