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This is a very detailed article. Most people do not appreciate how much work is put into building these digital maps, so it is great to see these kinds of artic

by mempko 12y ago

This is a very detailed article. Most people do not appreciate how much work is put into building these digital maps, so it is great to see these kinds of articles. While not as detailed, for contrast I want to post how Nokia's HERE maps builds their maps. http://360.here.com/2014/11/17/made-usa-people-fargo-make-maps/ http://360.here.com/2014/11/17/made-usa-people-fargo-make-ma... That is from the company blog. It shows a couple of our tools, but not nearly all. I work for HERE maps and my opinion is my own. I just thought that people might be interested in how other companies like HERE build maps. Despite all the automation (at both google and HERE), it is still a human intensive process and there are people on the other end making it as correct as can be. Also, I can't go beyond what is written on the public blog as I am not a company spokesperson.

fs111 12y ago
Similar articles about TomTom from 2 years ago: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/115883-how-tomtom-maps-are-made http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/115883-how-tomtom-maps-are-m...
- mempko 12y ago
  Awesome. That should be interesting to people who use Apple's maps.
  - Y-bar 12y ago
    TomTom is one of Apple's primary data sources. Source: http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
bostonpete 12y ago
I can't imagine the amount of ambiguity that comes up in every day conversation when the name of your project/division is "here". Do you have internal language that's used to avoid such ambiguity?
- mankyd 12y ago
  I used to work for a company called "Going". We had no alternative internal code name. (I swear, if I heard one more pun about where I was "going"...) That being said, you'd be surprised how little you need to refer to your own company by name internally, especially in an ambiguous manner. Usually its just "Hey, can you put this up on the site?" or "It would be cool if the product did X."
- mempko 12y ago
  I typically say "here maps". What I like about it is the URL is easy to remember. here.com
- ihaveajob 12y ago
  I used to work on a project called MOST inside a large hardware organization. Most conversations about MOST were most entertaining.
xwintermutex 12y ago
The LiDAR part is neat. Anyone knows if Google uses this too for mapping?

by mempko 12y ago

fs111 12y ago

Similar articles about TomTom from 2 years ago: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/115883-how-tomtom-maps-are-made http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/115883-how-tomtom-maps-are-m...

mempko 12y ago
Awesome. That should be interesting to people who use Apple's maps.
- Y-bar 12y ago
  TomTom is one of Apple's primary data sources. Source: http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html

bostonpete 12y ago

I can't imagine the amount of ambiguity that comes up in every day conversation when the name of your project/division is "here". Do you have internal language that's used to avoid such ambiguity?

mankyd 12y ago
I used to work for a company called "Going". We had no alternative internal code name. (I swear, if I heard one more pun about where I was "going"...) That being said, you'd be surprised how little you need to refer to your own company by name internally, especially in an ambiguous manner. Usually its just "Hey, can you put this up on the site?" or "It would be cool if the product did X."
mempko 12y ago
I typically say "here maps". What I like about it is the URL is easy to remember. here.com
ihaveajob 12y ago
I used to work on a project called MOST inside a large hardware organization. Most conversations about MOST were most entertaining.

xwintermutex 12y ago

The LiDAR part is neat. Anyone knows if Google uses this too for mapping?