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Seems like a great place to mention the MapQuest API. I tested it against 4 other services(inc. Google's) on 200 manually verified geocoding/reverse-geocoding t
by iinnPP 3y ago
Seems like a great place to mention the MapQuest API. I tested it against 4 other services(inc. Google's) on 200 manually verified geocoding/reverse-geocoding tasks. Google managed a 92% whereas MapQuest scored 99%.
If you are doing geocoding or reverse-geocoding MapQuest outperforms Google Maps quite magnificently(YMMV). The cost is also lower and there are plans where you can keep the data.
The funny thing being that the C levels didn't give a shit about the results and went ahead with Google Maps anyway. So your point remains correct.
- fragmede 3y agoWhat were the others? Google Maps, MapBox, OSM are the three that come to my mind.
- godelski 3y agoWaze? But my hyperbole aside ("only one"), how many people do you know use these other platforms? Colloquially people call things monopolies if they have sufficient market share, not absolute (which nearly never exists), or market collusion exists (e.g. ISPs, airlines, oil). People even do it for 2 dominating companies (e.g. Coke + Pepsi only controls 71% of market share (46.3+24.7)). Because the truth is that monopolies aren't always bad, they are just dangerous because they have so much weight that they can perform abusive tactics and that's the thing we actually care about. My whole point is that this gets to be a very sticky situation when the product is the market share (the more people that use Google Maps the better Google Maps gets. But maybe social networks are a clearer example).