Comments on: Tom Tom beats Google maps on road network updates http://blog.jayeyesea.com/2009/08/18/tom-tom-beats-google-maps-on-road-network-updates/ Jon and Ian's thoughts and ideas on technology, business and related stuff Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Blumenthal http://blog.jayeyesea.com/2009/08/18/tom-tom-beats-google-maps-on-road-network-updates/#comment-221 Mike Blumenthal Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:23:27 +0000 http://blog.jayeyesea.com/?p=200#comment-221 Here is the US, Google has created their own base data with Streetview, parcel data and public domain data and is using crowd sourcing to fix and improve that data. Over here, TeleAtlas data has not been very good so Google had a strong motivation to replace it with their own. Even with this major change in base data and the move to more active crowd sourcing, the complaints have been minimal and the repairs very quick. In a recent case of "bad data" where the town of Sunrise, Fl <a href="http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/10/19/google-maps-will-we-ever-see-sunrise/" rel="nofollow">"went missing"</a> after the change, it was completely repaired within 72 hours of Google being notified. Here is the US, Google has created their own base data with Streetview, parcel data and public domain data and is using crowd sourcing to fix and improve that data. Over here, TeleAtlas data has not been very good so Google had a strong motivation to replace it with their own.

Even with this major change in base data and the move to more active crowd sourcing, the complaints have been minimal and the repairs very quick. In a recent case of “bad data” where the town of Sunrise, Fl “went missing” after the change, it was completely repaired within 72 hours of Google being notified.

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