I'm sorry, but can someone paste the part of this article where Google announces anything about 400 years? I can't find it.
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Google Maps' advantage over Apple Maps
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually found this article to be the first one that didn't just criticize Apple, but actually made suggestions about how they should go about fixing it. It was rather interesting for someone like me who has no experience in map making, to see how much is really involved in digital cartography. edit: on a related note, I always took google maps for granted, but now that I realize how fantastic of an effort it must…
The Atlantic recently wrote up a nice piece on Google Maps. It explores just how complex the whole operation is, how many humans and machines are involved in making Google's maps... http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
Very interesting article, thanks for the read.
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#143What is most amusing to me about this whole thing is that two weeks ago The Atlantic published[0] an article offering incredible insight into just how much effort goes into making Google's maps so good. Was it already too late at that point for Apple to see this and think that maybe they hadn't thought this thing through? The only alternatives I can think of are blindingly foolish. Either they thought they engineered…
Apple has to start at some point with its own maps. The trick is that these will be lower quality in the beginning but only with time they'll be able to incorporate user data and get better. The longer you delay the later you'll have better maps.
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#144> My overall view of the companies that it (Apple) has assembled to create its application is that they are, as a whole, rated “C-grade” suppliers. This just amazes me. For the longest time there were really only two suppliers of data: Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ. Everything else wasn't worth touching b/c the quality sucked. Then Google collected their own in their little cars and stopped paying suppliers. I'm not sure why…
How does Google get satellite view data without suppliers?
Easy: they bought their own freaking satellite.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/08/first-google-satelli...
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#145This is probably the first time (IMHO) when the "title-change by mods" made complete sense. The old "400 years" title was pure link-bait.
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#146There was an amazing blog post (http://41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-read...) on 41Latitude when it still around about the absolute thing of beauty and art that is the labeling and visual design of Google Maps that enable it to have extremely high data density, while maintaining perhaps the best readability of any of the interactive maps out there. Correctness is the most glaring issue, but it's far, far more that sets Google apart from what Apple launched in their maps application.
EDIT: Here is an archived version found elsewhere: http://www.allhatter.com/showthread.php/13017-Google-Maps-am...
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#147I'm sorry, but can someone paste the part of this article where Google announces anything about 400 years? I can't find it.
I'm thinking it's a ploy to get people to read yet another criticism of Apple's new maps. We get it, they're bad. EDIT: Frankly, I think it's pretty hilarious this article is so long and formal.
This isn't some point-and-laugh thing. It's informative and interesting. If this is "long and formal" to you, I don't know what to say. It's like 500 words, and a bunch of it is bulleted points.
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#148For all the problems there may be with Apple's maps, the directions to my house have actually improved. Google maps has recognizes a road that has been closed for about 15 years as still open, and it uses the closed road for most requesting directions to my house (and probably anyone else in my vicinity). Apple maps got it right.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
You obviously don't remember the first iPhone.
I bought it. It was an MVP. The M stands for Minimal. The V stands for Viable. I still have it and note that Maps in iOS 3 over EDGE is more responsive and slicker looking than Maps in iOS 5.
Oh, so when it suits your argument it's an MVP, when it doesn't, it's half baked. Got it.