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Actually most of Google's POI data comes from established companies e.g. Yellow Pages. For whatever reason Apple has chosen not to seek out the same partnershi
by taligent 14y ago
Actually most of Google's POI data comes from established companies e.g. Yellow Pages.
For whatever reason Apple has chosen not to seek out the same partnerships. Maybe they will get round to it. Maybe they are hoping for a true crowdsourced solution.
- fpgeek 14y agoRecently, an increasing amount of Google's POI data is coming from companies they own (e.g. Frommer's and Zagat). Somehow I think Apple will have trouble working out licensing deals with those providers.
- jws 14y agoMy business locations didn't show on Google until I entered them myself. That was years ago though, so things may have changed. The darker side of crowdsourcing: My tenant didn't show up on Google maps until someone entered them, apparently just so they could then attach a really angry negative review stemming from a bad experience with a different company that was infringing my tenants trademark in order to steal customers. Good luck getting that kind of mess out of Google.