Following the release of Apple Maps, time seemed maps do only Google and Apple. Yet The Atlantic reminds us that Nokia has invested over $ 8 billion (most of this money at Navteq), and just Nokia, not Apple, is the greatest competitor in quality of Google Maps.
Unfortunately due to financial problems can be found in the Finnish giant, Nokia not only often overlooked, but it is possible to sell maps of competing companies well below right value. Analysis of Atlantic says most interested in Nokia Maps Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple but because of recent problems and would must become a customer.
Google for its maps "invested" tens of thousands of hours spent driving and eight million kilometers in Street View vehicle. During that time, Nokia launched cooperation with UPS and FedEx, and UPS drivers only spend 5.28 billion km per year. The cooperation with UPS, Nokia month data gets 12 billion per month, according to Cliff Fox, Nokia vice-presidents in charge of data collection locations.
G.. Fox announced that Nokia collects 400 data for each segment (Cell of road between two intersections), for example if the street is one-way or in both directions, number of lanes, places where there is a narrowing of the road and many similar data.
Like Google and Nokia have vehicles used for road mapping. One of the drivers of these vehicles for Nokia, Tony Cha said that mapping major cities is necessary driving eight hours a day for a month. A route by which drive is computed by an algorithm, based on the most effective way to pass on every street of the city. According to him, the biggest challenge facing all companies that have to maintain updated maps change all streets.
Nokia probably have enough data to be compared with Google Maps. But now at least there should be no doubt that the battle for best application of this type will be between Google and Nokia. Nokia understandable hope that this application will help customers to solve their phones, together with the new operating system finally to return to the list of best selling phones.
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