21 December 2006

Battle of the maps

Martyn Daniels notes that Google has just bought the Internet mapping company Endoxon in this post: Booksellers Association: Google Maps All Faster.

"Just like hundreds of years ago when famous explorers and sailors captured for the first time the world in charts, today there is a race to capture the world in minutia and make it available online to all."

Martyn Daniels, a digital publisher of considerable experience, outlines the business reasons for the purchase and Google's likely strategy in the rest of his post.

21 Dec 2006 16:43:24 | Web/Tech

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