Does someone travel every single area and manually input information or…? I feel so stupid
asking this lol.
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Yes.
I used to work for a company that had a similar app for truckers. There are companies that sell this map data, but we still had to do some work on top of what we bought. Apple and Google are doing similar things.
They can start with public plans that show the major city streets and roads. But getting up-to-date versions of those is tough. I know for sure Google has cars set up that drive the actual roads to make sure everything is up to date. Waze has an “editing mode” where a user can drive on roads it doesn’t know about to help them add new streets faster. I’m sure Apple is doing something similar to Google.
Users report a lot of data, too. They don’t instantly use that information, but if 10 people report a speed trap it’s probably actually there. If 50 people submit a building name, it’s probably correct. Etc.
It’s a huge job, but one advantage they have is while stuff is frequently *added* it’s very seldom *removed*. Roads don’t tend to get removed or destroyed. So once they put a road in the system they don’t generally have to check on it again for a while.
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