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Why would Google do that?
I assume they're currently paying license fees, and spending lots of money on keeping their systems up to date. Switching to open data would hopefully reduce both factors.
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I assume they're currently paying license fees, and spending lots of money on keeping their systems up to date. Switching to open data would hopefully reduce both factors.
I routinely switch between 4 different map and map-based services (Google Maps for Streetview, Bing Maps for Ordnance Survey maps, OpenStreetMap for paths and Geograph for pictures overlayed on OS grid cells) - I'd love to have some way of combining these.
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lc88a/were_the_google_...
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
Down the road, I don't want Google to be the only one with enough mapping knowledge to have self-driving car tech. That doesn't seem like data that should be owned by a corporation.
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
Not any time soon, their licenses are incompatible. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lc88a/were_the_google_...
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
Bing has added a open street maps layer, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is in the next iteration of the Nokia 3d maps ( http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html ) which does not currently have street names or local listings. My question is, are they waiting for webgl to be on mobile?