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Some enterprises are turning to open source map by jodie mht
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From its inception seven years ago, the Google Maps service offers street maps, satellite photos and street view gradually in the online map services industry occupies a dominant position, bypassing some of the early industry competitors such as AOL'sMapQuest. According to comScore's statistics show that in February, the United States has 91.7 million map users are using the Google Maps service. However, we can see the Google Maps service is already facing a challenge, now, in the map service to the user, many companies have started to give up using the Google Maps service, map service currently available, such as the open source map . Such a situation not without contact, and some of Google's own move. Google has been only on large sites to charge, which can be understood, but in October last year, Google announced that from 2012 to the frequent use of the Google Maps service SMEs charges, mainly the number of daily View Map over 2.5 million times on the website. In the application of location-related unprecedented popularity of the moment to protect the API (application programming interface) can have long-term future. "This has been dependent on Google Maps Web site developers to very dissatisfied. Google Maps API is the most frequently used APIs on the network, far ahead of the interface of Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Google estimated that the new charges only 0.35% of the Google Maps user impact, but an experienced user that such a decision affects 34% of business users rely on Google Maps, may make the cost of thousands of users million of the increase. These users, there will be a large part will select the other map services to reduce business costs. In February, the United States based on the user location information of mobile phone service website Foursquare to renounce the use of the Google Maps service in favor of co-operation with the start-up companies MapBox, the use of open source map OpenStreetMap data to create a new map service. Foursquare official blog statement, they said that Google charges prompted their decision. In March, Apple released a new generation of iPad users find the latest iOS version of iPhoto in the map data has changed, no longer is the data from Google Maps, but from the OpenStreetMap open source map products. While Apple is still used in other products, Google Maps, but gradually abandoned the Google Maps car dvd and honda dvd player trend is inevitable. According to comScore's statistics, the open source Map products OpenStreetMap market share remains small. In February, Google Maps had 65 million users, compared to last year, an increase of 16%; MapQuest has 35 million users, a decrease of 13%; Microsoft will be the map has nine million subscribers in the third, an increase of 18 %. Nevertheless, the Foursquare such support OpenStreetMap's impact will be enhanced to a certain extent, this incentive is also open source map products. "It gives us a lot of attention, the OpenStreetMap the founder SteveCoast of that they have 500,000 registered users.
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