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Re:A Year of Google and Apple Maps by Doctor_Fegg on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:26PM (#14431791)
> And as of 2014, Google had already driven 99% of U.S. public roads

Nope. Try dragging Pegman over anywhere in the rural Midwest and see what you get. 99% of US _paved_ roads, perhaps.

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Re:A Year of Google and Apple Maps by theDoug on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:59PM (#14431954)
Mapping a road and photographing it for StreetView are also not the same thing.
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Re:A Year of Google and Apple Maps by CamperBob2 on Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:43PM (#14432748)
Why not? If they're "driving" the roads (their term), they're presumably photographing them. You don't need to drive the road just to map it.
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Re:A Year of Google and Apple Maps by Piskvorrr on Monday May 29, 2017 @09:15AM (#14438921)
Because the Street View rig is expensive to manufacture; ordinary "driving the roads" can be done with normal vehicles. (Heck, you could even source data from usual drivers, if you owned e.g. Waze)
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