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Yeah but will they charter planes with cameras and build software to process all that imagery? Drive cars around to take street level pictures, detect and blur
by yafbum 4y ago
Yeah but will they charter planes with cameras and build software to process all that imagery? Drive cars around to take street level pictures, detect and blur faces? Somehow get indoor and underground mall maps? Pay armies of data cleanup ops people to make manual adjustments? Process phone location data to infer traffic conditions?
I think it's a very commendable effort but I'm not sure it can be accomplished with a collaborative potluck approach vs a very strategic investment with clear accountability.
- mschuster91 4y agoThe partner structure makes sense, I guess this will be the result: - TomTom provides their mapping data (they already have fleets of cars, planes, people and relations to city planners, as well as live data for traffic conditions. They get some sort of monetization back as the market for navigation devices has all but collapsed over the last decade. - AWS and Microsoft provide cloud services - Microsoft and Meta bring reach to the new platform - MS has O365 Outlook and Meta with all their services that use maps integration - Meta brings in a huge list of POI data and attendance information because almost all businesses still have (validated) Facebook pages with coordinates, and the Facebook app is notorious for being a data vacuum - Linux Foundation coordinates dealing with FOSS projects, particularly OSM and desktop environments - the other companies aren't really the best in thinking in the same way as for-profit corporation In the end, everyone brings in something valuable to the service, and gets something in return.
- plonk 4y agoMicrosoft also has a heap of data coming from their investment in Bing. Edit: I forgot Flight Simulator :)
- ilyt 4y ago> - Meta brings in a huge list of POI data and attendance information because almost all businesses still have (validated) Facebook pages with coordinates, and the Facebook app is notorious for being a data vacuum They could also steal the user's pics instead of driving cars filming streets around! /s
- phonon 4y agoYou forgot about Amazon MapsAPI[0] and Bing Maps[1] [0] https://developer.amazon.com/docs/maps/get-started.html https://developer.amazon.com/docs/maps/get-started.html [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/choose-your-bing-maps-api https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/choose-your-bing-maps-a...
- mschuster91 4y agoDidn't know about Amazon MapsAPI... jesus, they're adding new stuff to AWS every few days or what. How can anyone keep up with that is a mystery to me, and I'm managing a couple thousand AWS resources in Terraform at work.
- phonon 4y agoIt's intended for their fork of Android (FireOS).