[gps-talkusers] Re: seeing eye gps improvements
- From: Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:53:52 +0300
I see this "why don't you use Google Maps" question so often, that I think
I need to give my thoughts. I was originally planning to use Google Maps in
BlindSquare, but their license explicitly says it is not allowed to be used
in apps like this. I tried to contact Google, but it is very hard to get to
contact with them, even I have some business channels there.
So, as a built in map data source, I don't see Google Maps as an option.
They don't have API to get street data in vector form which is often needed
in apps like this. What they provide is map in graphical form which is not
very useful).
Yes, they have possibility to do route plan and search for POI, but for
BlindSquare it is not enough (+there is this license issue).
So, for this reason, Google Maps is provided only as 3rd party route
planning and more detailed map data is coming from OpenStreetMap and Apple
Maps.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:02 AM, brandon armstrong <baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> hello all, I want to weigh in on what mike may said here. you love
> foursquare, my point here, please get google maps in the next version of
> this app, like we’ve been asking you to do sense 1.0 and call it a day. do
> you know, that we got a bypass here in my location, after the bypass
> opened, with in two days of that road opening, google maps starts telling
> me turn right on to state highway 9, where your app and some others keep
> telling me to continue on to 190. I’m sorry, but for almost real time
> updated map info google maps will be your best way to go verses tom tom and
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