From: “Maps Guide Jen“Â (Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners@googlegroups.com)
… it sounds like your addresses aren’t being recognized within our map data, all of which comes from NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. We don’t currently have a way for you to submit your map data to Google Maps, although we’re working on it.
“Maps Guide Jen” the Google staffer at the Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners Group, provided the above answer when a business reporting that Google Maps was locating their business incorrectly. There is nothing more frustrating than when the underlying data to which a business owner has no access is wrong. It looks like Google will soon offer a solution that allows the business owner to correct that map data more easily themselves.
I wonder if this capability will be offered when they switch to the Endoxon data.
Comment by Reuben Yau (6 comments) — December 27, 2006 @ 12:15 pm
Reuben
I had seen the reports of the acquisition but hadn’t given it much thought because they were speaking in terms of Europe.
It looks like 2007 is gearing up to be a fun year.
Mike
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (1957 comments) — December 28, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
my guess is that endoxon is more of a technology acquisition than a data provider. they do neat things with ajax layering on the maps and basically running on tele-atlas data which they back fill with other sources here and there. the poi and business infos are provided by yellowpages players like goyellow or local.ch etc. who partnered with endoxon as their maps provider… So they would be in the position to do it, technically speaking.
cheers
~frank
Comment by frank (9 comments) — December 29, 2006 @ 3:41 am
Frank, thanks for stopping by.
I visited http://map.search.ch/ mentioned in the Google Operating System blog and I was impressed with both the imagery and the speed of a product that functions more like Google Earth than Google Maps does.
Very neat indeed.
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (1957 comments) — December 29, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Here is another great example: http://map.myswitzerland.com/myswitzerland/?
and here is some stuff taken off Enoxon before their site was taken down that explains some of the technology:
http://www.google.com/notebook/public/10082229128833698422/BDQ4fSgoQwcDcgPoh
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (1957 comments) — December 29, 2006 @ 2:05 pm
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