Comments for Google Maps have started to move from Tele Atlas at http://www.geowebguru.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.geowebguru.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:00:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.geowebguru.com/news/214-google-maps-started-to-move-from-tele-atlas#comment-144 This change by Google has caused quite a bit of discussion online which continues. Some has been strategic in nature. When taken with the news that Google's Android mobile phone platform will support navigation, the general consensus is that Google have the potential to dominant the consumer mapping industry. Although the Android news is merely incremental (iPhones already have navigation), TomTom shares have fallen dramatically. The other side of the discussion concerns the quality of the new data which Google are using for North America. There are a lot of data quality issues with it. This probably isn't surprising as it appears to be based on Tiger/LINE. Google are clearly hoping that crowd-sourced corrections will fix this, but there are lots of reports of people simply moving to the alternatives. Can Google pull this off, or have they bitten off more than they can chew? One of the better discussions is in [url=http://geothought.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-google-maps-data-change-big-mistake.html]this blog post by Peter Batty[/url]. - Richard M Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:44:15 +0100