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My evidence would suggest that they guess.
Currently they do not have a solution for this. Luckily it is easy to detect people gaming the system and I believe they handle collisions by hand at the moment. I can only assume this money will help them build a proper solution to this problem.
Re:Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:59PM (#4646137)
Open source is interesting, it is a philosophy. I first noticed this when I saw the backlash that was directed at Makerbot when they went against the reprap community and decided not to open source parts of their new replicator 2 printer. When you mess with someones philosophy you have to be very careful.

The decision to open source is not something you can ever backpedal on without serious backlash.

Re:New Android Maps API around the corner? on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:45PM (#4646075)
Fancy. Looks like a response, sort of, to Apple Maps. I wonder if this api will debut in updated maps apps for both Android and iOS? One can only dream.