Well, you tell me what their valuation comes from. given Google already had a maps service, acquired earlier. Perhaps the prospect of having everyone's data whi

Well, you tell me what their valuation comes from. given Google already had a maps service, acquired earlier. Perhaps the prospect of having everyone's data while they move is a nice thing to have. Not sure why people are so offended by the citation from Wikipedia, though. It seems like a bait, but is not - is an actual quote. I didn't make up this text - it is the first paragraph. Besides to me it implies s.o. who knows how to value data made a big company crowdsourcing and also collecting data 24/7 and knew how to sell it. Or perhaps a company doing crowdsourced navigation is a new thing in 2013? You tell me, I'm just stating the facts.