10-31-2016, 10:33 AM
(10-31-2016, 10:06 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Does Google provide mass access to their data? For streets view? I'm not sure if they do. If they are offering access, I doubt they're asking half a billion dollars for it, which is what Uber said they were spending on this.
I know that you can use the Google Maps API for your service, and that above a certain usage you have to start paying. I just assumed that it's the same for streetview.
Who knows, maybe the amount that Uber would need to use the data would literally be ridiculous millions of dollars. And at that point, they're happy enough to pay the premium to just make their own dataset, and get all the extra flexibility and security of owning the raw data.