How Google Builds Its Maps
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How Google Builds Its Maps
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#2A lot of people under estimate the investment Google has made in their maps product. That we've got two companies doing that (Apple and Google) is a bit mind boggling.
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#3Of all Google's products, Maps is the one I appreciate the most. It got lots of smart features, it's fast, it's got great coverage, and it's easy to use. Truly great work.
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#4NAVTEQ has been doing this for 15 years. Google learned it from being their customer for much of that time. But of course they get the credit.
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#5NAVTEQ has been doing this for 15 years. Google learned it from being their customer for much of that time. But of course they get the credit.
Definitely true to a point. I think it's fair to give them some credit though. Despite their obvious motive of reducing their own costs, they've really established an amazing infrastructure, not to mention a rich API.
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#6A lot of people under estimate the investment Google has made in their maps product. That we've got two companies doing that (Apple and Google) is a bit mind boggling.
It's not Apple doing it, it's http://www.openstreetmap.org/.
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#7Phew! I worked in one of Google's data-entry offices for the GT team. I've left, but now I can shoot this article to people to actually describe what I did.
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#8Of all Google's products, Maps is the one I appreciate the most. It got lots of smart features, it's fast, it's got great coverage, and it's easy to use. Truly great work.
Totally agree. Would also add Chrome to the list of "most appreciated Google products".
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#9A lot of people under estimate the investment Google has made in their maps product. That we've got two companies doing that (Apple and Google) is a bit mind boggling.
It's not Apple doing it, it's http://www.openstreetmap.org/ .
Do they really use Open Street Map? I thought they licences data from TomTom.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not Apple doing it, it's http://www.openstreetmap.org/ .
Do they really use Open Street Map? I thought they licences data from TomTom.
Both (and more, too).
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078987/apple-tomtom-opens...