Jones: Google Didn’t Pursue NAVTEQ
But Google is hedging its bets. Michael T. Jones, chief technologist of Google Earth, Maps and Local, says the company never considered buying Navteq. Instead, Google could simply recreate the data far more cheaply by tapping the mapmaking skills of its hundreds of millions of users — a wiki of maps, he suggests.
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/03 at 08:18 AM |
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