Google bought up a company (satellites and all) that produces the maps a few years back. They're not at the mercy of anyone. As for the Google maps mini-revolt, I'm going to look it up.
Personally, I love that "non-American and non-European countries" mention. If you can't beat *ism, join it. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't matter if Yahoo has it. Google and Yahoo don't always use the > same map data services. And they don't necessarily have the same service > level agreements. > > Neither produce their own map data, afaik. > > Both are at the mercy, currently, of their data providers, their data > agreements, their ability > to augment holes in the data with their own add-ons. > > There has apparently been a semi-serious revolution brewing in Google's > Indian google maps offices, where they want WAY better maps for > non-American > and non-European countries. (google it if you want to follow along) > > A lot of engineers are spending their 20% time on this, and my > understanding > is there are a number of "grouplets" working on it. > > I am going to keep reading about this, as I am now interested. > > Jerry > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265677 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
