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Many of Musks companies have access to internal google API's that aren't available to the public. For example, the in-tesla car map uses various google data so
by londons_explore 3y ago
Many of Musks companies have access to internal google API's that aren't available to the public.
For example, the in-tesla car map uses various google data sources in ways the regular API doesn't support.
- raverbashing 3y agoCould be Waze APIs?
- kentlyons 3y agoSure just like any (big) company paying for a contract.
- londons_explore 3y agoUsually not with Google... If you went to Google and said "I will pay you $1M to make a custom version of Google maps for my company with a pink background but no other changes", they wouldn't do it. Most teams keep the sales guys a long way from engineering, and one customers request rarely makes it in.
- kentlyons 3y ago$1m is what - one person-year, two? Sure that's not enough. However it doesn't mean the api is custom. Just not the same as the public one. For your specific example, Tesla renders thier own map tiles.
- agentdrtran 3y agoout of curiosity, any other examples?