I fail to see how you can own all the cartographic data, does Google have a special power which allows it to prevent people from drawing maps? Also if the barr

I fail to see how you can own all the cartographic data, does Google have a special power which allows it to prevent people from drawing maps? Also if the barrier to entry was so high you would think that mapquest or bing maps wouldn't exist, but magically they do. I would be surprised that someone who is active on a tech site would find it odd that a startup could raise millions of dollars in funding.