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Google Maps and Business Listings – Better, but not quite there
It’s time for that long winter’s nap – or perhaps a long read on a topic of interest to everyone – business listings and Google Maps. Thrill your boss, intrigue your friends and drown the conversation...
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Business locations, map errors, address errors – Let’s stop the nonsense
My colleague Dr. Stephen Guptill and I have been noodling about how to apply aspects of the formal theories of map accuracy and uncertainty in a manner that could be used to evaluate and report on the...
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The Incredible Lightness of Being…driven
Have you ever noticed that passengers in cars often have little specific awareness of the details of the spatial locations through which vehicles navigate? Often, when these people are driving to a...
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Silicon Valley Mapenings
Recently I decided to put a new “topical” category in my Google News App in hopes of the service finding articles on mapping and navigation. Doing so has netted me relatively few articles. In fact, the...
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HERE Maps on Sale – The mapping derby begins
As you may have read in the WSJ , Forbes, or other sources, Nokia’s mapping unit HERE is in play. While I do not find this item to be “news,” it has attracted a great deal of publicity and speculation...
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Silicon Valley – the New Motor City?
As you may have noticed, my last few blogs either directly or indirectly, have been nipping at the issues surrounding autonomous vehicles (AV) and the spatial data that might be needed to operate them....
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Google Maps Stumbles Badly – Crowdsourcing is the Problem*
Google Maps has had a rough go of it lately. Public relations problems generated by crowdsourced data are at the heart of the conundrum, but the problems are related to two different systems used to...
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Can Anyone Stay on Top of the Online Mapping Hill?
Recently a colleague contacted me to ask my thoughts about a report indicating that Microsoft was selling some map-related assets to Uber. He noted his disappointment, as he had hoped that Microsoft...
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What3Words – Not.Quite.Right
Recently, just for fun, I have been examining innovative grid offerings from What3Words, MapCode (TomTom-link) and Open Location Code (Google). What3Words seems to have caught the most attention, and...
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Local Search – Local Data – Local Sources
In my last blog I mentioned that some problems are best solved with a “global” approach, while others might be susceptible to a solution that is targeted locally. For some reason this thought has been...
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Use Cases and Online Maps
Hi, Everybody. This topic started out innocently enough and wasn’t research for a blog. What I was trying to do (my use case) was to find driving directions to several wildlife sanctuaries that had...
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Comments on the Development of Spatial Databases to Support Autonomous Vehicles
Companies announcing new mapping initiatives seem to be crawling out of the woodwork. Why the sudden interest in mapping and what should we make of these new entrants in the mapping space? The recent...
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Measuring the Cost of Uber’s Push Into Spatial Data
The recent “news” stories that Uber was doubling-down and developing a spatial database to support the company’s mission seemed anti-climactic to me. After all, over the last two years Uber has...
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More on Spatial Databases for Autonomous Vehicles
Many of the companies now collecting spatial data to support the development of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles appear to be evolving their approach to match sentiments espoused in Nineteenth...
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Addresses, Technology and the Map Wars
In my daily reading it is rare that I do not discover several new articles about Autonomous Vehicles (AV/), Highly Automated Vehicles (HAV) and who is winning the battle for market domination. While I...
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A New Look at Apple Maps
Recently I was pleased to read a review in TechCrunch detailing how Apple Maps is attempting to change directions, by owning its mapping data and developing complex data compilation, handling,...
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Where Would You Like to Place the Crimea on Your World Map?
Apple and its Maps product popped onto my radar last month. First, as part of the a response to a probe by the House Judiciary Committee into whether or not Apple had engaged In anti-competitive...
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