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The Internet Giant, Plan to Map the World
-According to the Forbes Magazine,The navigation service industry shuddered last month after Google announced its first turn-by-turn navigation program, Google Maps Navigation. Like most Google programs, Maps Navigation is free to consumers, making paid services from other nav companies look pricey--or worse, unnecessary--in comparison.
Nav companies took solace in the fact that Maps Navigation currently only works in the U.S., on Google's ( GOOG - news - people ) Android mobile platform, and--for now--on just a few phones, including the Motorola Droid and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G/HTC Magic. But chatter that Google is soliciting European mapping data has some nav companies considering shutting their doors.
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http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/24/europe-navigation-cloudmade-technology-wireless-google.html
-According to the Forbes Magazine,The navigation service industry shuddered last month after Google announced its first turn-by-turn navigation program, Google Maps Navigation. Like most Google programs, Maps Navigation is free to consumers, making paid services from other nav companies look pricey--or worse, unnecessary--in comparison.
Nav companies took solace in the fact that Maps Navigation currently only works in the U.S., on Google's ( GOOG - news - people ) Android mobile platform, and--for now--on just a few phones, including the Motorola Droid and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G/HTC Magic. But chatter that Google is soliciting European mapping data has some nav companies considering shutting their doors.
Kindly Visit this website for more information:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/24/europe-navigation-cloudmade-technology-wireless-google.html
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