Google Maps's Moat
Justin O’Beirne,
Dec 20, 2017
The 'moat' in the title represents how hard it will be for competitors, like Apple Maps, to catch up. The article as a whole is a detailed analysis of what Google has been doing with its maps service in the last year and especially how it hasd been combining different kinds of data to create new data - such as, for example, shapes of buildings extracted from satellite projections, and business types extracted from street view, combined to form 'areas of interest' featuring clusters of shops and restaurants. From experience I can say that this new data greatly assists tourism and exploration.
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