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A shame that all of this data is collected "free" for Google, then people are made to pay to access it for their apps in the Maps API.
A shame that all of this data is collected "free" for Google, then people are made to pay to access it for their apps in the Maps API.
What's preventing people from uploading incorrect floor plans? Plus, with no standard floor plan format, I don't see how this is useful, beyond showing another helpful picture of a location.
The suggestion that people just upload them is somewhat problematic in so far as it is akin to Napster's approach to music a decade ago.
A shame that all of this data is collected "free" for Google, then people are made to pay to access it for their apps in the Maps API.
Only sites that pay are sites with many thousands of requests per day. They're more paying for the infrastructure overhead than data. Would you rather have Google Maps covered in ads, ala Search, or have the top 1% of companies making money from the product pay for it?
If Google provided bulk downloads I'd support their service, though, even if the online API required payment, because I do think it's reasonable to charge people who're using Google's infrastructure as basically their webapp backend.
Why would this be Android only? Isn't there value at all in having this on a full computer?
If it's just for Android I'm not submitting my building.
In the US, "Blueprints" etc. are protected by copyright and the vast majority are provided to building owners under very restricted usage rights which do not anticipate such use. The suggestion that people just upload them is somewhat problematic in so far as it is akin to Napster's approach to music a decade ago.