The plan is simple: Waze will build maps by tracking where and how its users drive.
While services such as Tele Atlas collect information from many sources, including users, Waze has put crowd-sourcing at the center of his effort to build maps.
Apple announced last week at its developer conference that it would build its own maps service and terminate its agreements to use Google Maps on the iPhone starting this fall.
The Mountain View, California has also driven more than 5 million unique miles as part of its five-year quest (called project Ground Truth) to build more accurate maps from its own raw data rather than licensing map content from others, said Brian McClendon, head of Google maps.
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The trust has been working on maps to build a picture of the best wild land which it believes should be given statutory protection, separate to existing designations such as National Scenic Areas.
We will require the publication of crime data online in an open way so that communities can build their own crime maps, see what crimes are being committed, where and at what time and hold their local police to account if they're not doing something about it.
For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
At Google Schmidt has used the Web's openness to create an even bigger and harder-to-attack network of online developers who build software for products like Google Maps and now Android.
The goal of the project is to develop a detailed gravitational map of the Moon, which can then be compared to topographical maps on the Moon to build a picture of what the inside of the Moon is like.
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On the software front, Nokia has armed it with several signature items, including Nokia Music, Drive, and Maps, but alongside this older Windows Phone build, we're a bit disappointed by the lack of a front camera and the miserly 2.2GB of non-expandable storage.
The Maps team has started working with residents like Chris Kalluk to build what it hopes will be the most comprehensive map of the region to date.
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Once we get a lot of data onto maps, we can really begin to understand reality in much different ways, like where to build a house to increase the happiness of the people inside it, how to make routes that avoid accidents, and how to design better urban systems.
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