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imo for the 95%-task of get-me-to-this-address i find the apple routing actually superior to gmaps (in germany that is)

• mnky9800n 6y ago
  I thought that's because Google stopped doing street view because of German privacy laws. Without the street view cars roaming around there's a lot less street level data to be had.
  • hobofan 6y ago
    I'm not sure how important Streetview is for street level data. I was always under the impression that "paved" (or similar) streets were pretty easy to get right (and can possibly be obtained from a governmental agency?). For smaller footpaths I always assumed that they were using movement data (the same they use for traffic forecasting) to detect where they are. They also resumed Streetview in parts of Germany this year, and I'm not sure they ever fully stopped running them for private data collection.
    • mnky9800n 6y ago
      I figured they had a tracker on the cars that would produce actively captured data that could be compared to phone data to understand what roads are around, etc.
    • maxerickson 6y ago
      They do feature extraction; store names, addresses, traffic controls, etc.
    • sangnoir 6y ago
      > I'm not sure how important Streetview is for street level data. Streetview imagery is mined for address information from signs/plaques on buildings. Operating hours and names of businesses can be determined via OCR