The World in Your Pocket; Maps  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8808 (Oct. 2012), page SS9-SS11.
Topik: International; Online Information Services; Cartography; Image Processing Systems; Market Strategy; Information Retrieval

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Google's plan for the physical realm is the same as for the digital one: to organise the world's information to make it universally accessible and useful. It wants to map every last hiking trail and park bench, and then make it easy to find. The detail being brought to digital mapmaking by Google and others is breathtaking. A fast-growing portion of the world is being mapped in three dimensions. Nokia is collecting minute details about roads to feed into advanced driving systems: anticipating a hill, a car can speed up in order to cruise rather than labour up the slope; or it can slow down if the driver is going too fast for a bend ahead. Mapmakers are going indoors as well as out. Late last year both Google and Nokia said they would be helping people find their way around places like shopping malls and airports. Collecting all these data demands a huge investment. Nokia sends out cars with lasers to build up its pictures of the planet; Google, having had cars going round photographing the world at street level, now also maintains a fleet of aeroplanes.

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