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Forgive my ignorance, but how is this “low hanging fruit”? Google is still extremely competitive in the maps/location space, and I’ve heard Apple Maps is very
by klabb3 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this “low hanging fruit”?
Google is still extremely competitive in the maps/location space, and I’ve heard Apple Maps is very good these days. Secondly, these features are not trivial. Maps are much more interactive - giant teams or even orgs are managing these products at faang.
On the other hand, having language-awareness is perhaps more important. Google frequently gives me results based on location, although I don’t speak the language (well). Getting results in English is hard where I am, in the typical infantilizing fashion of megacorps (we think you want X, and we’re not gonna offer you a setting).
Edit: apparently Google added Spanish as a language automatically based on some searches, and then search results for say API docs came up in Spanish first instead, despite English being my “preferred language”.
- ambigious7777 3y agoI think OP just wants to have map results based off geolocation, not a full-fledged map service.