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I wonder if Google will continue to forbid others from using their maps for turn-by-turn navigation (namely: Apple).
by awolf 17y ago
I wonder if Google will continue to forbid others from using their maps for turn-by-turn navigation (namely: Apple).
- jws 17y agoThere has been a change. Google used to license map data from a 3rd party for web display, now Google is increasingly making their maps from original sources. I just checked and the turn-by-turn prohibition is still in their terms of use, but one could imagine that when the data is all Google generated and owned they could lift that restriction.
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- eb 17y agoGoogle didn't previously own the map data (Tele Atlas did and they're owned by GPS device company, TomTom) so it wasn't theirs to license. They only recently started using their own maps earlier this month for the US. Also, Apple recently acquired PlaceBase so they now have access to their own map data.