How Google Builds Its Maps

Re:How Google Builds Its Maps by taligent on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:06PM (#4487526)

Actually Google should be the same as local street directories since that is where they get there data from. I live in Australia (hi, neighbour) and it is Sensis (Yellow/White Pages) who supply data to Google.

As for quality of maps it is about 80% as good as Google and has been getting noticeably better over time.

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Re:How Google Builds Its Maps by Tichy on Friday September 07, 2012 @03:47AM (#4488021)

I was under the impression that Google has their own places product, so I suspect they combine several sources.

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Re:How Google Builds Its Maps by te_chris on Friday September 07, 2012 @06:11PM (#4491448)

AFAIK they maintain that by buying a lot of commercial place data.

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Re:How Google Builds Its Maps by stromstad on Friday September 07, 2012 @03:37AM (#4487995)

Haven't the street view cars been down under yet?

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