Google already drives around a fleet of vehicles to collect this data. Wouldn't it be better for them to give all that money to the postal service to subsidize mail delivery while also getting cars off the road?
I'd rather have the government build a public domain dataset as SamWhited suggested (and equally available to Google's competitors, projects like OSM, and any creative HNer) than have them collect proprietary data for Google and help lock in Google's competitive advantage.
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Google already drives around a fleet of vehicles to collect this data. Wouldn't it be better for them to give all that money to the postal service to subsidize mail delivery while also getting cars off the road?
I'd rather have the government build a public domain dataset as SamWhited suggested (and equally available to Google's competitors, projects like OSM, and any creative HNer) than have them collect proprietary data for Google and help lock in Google's competitive advantage.
Because everyone knows how good the government is with our data