# Google Maps’s Moat

<https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/>

- Host: [justinobeirne.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/justinobeirne.com/)
- Saved: December 24, 2017 (2017-12-24T13:12:15Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/325aa8164d67/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/325aa8164d67.json

## What Jamie wrote

Amazing side-by-side analysis of Google Maps and Apple Maps. Better thought of as an analysis of how Google is scaling their mapping data using machine learning and visual analysis. You get the sense that Google is looking at map data at a whole different level than everyone else.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT34: Weekly Thing for December 30, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/34/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Cartography Comparison: Google Maps](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fd36c4bc3a16/) (justinobeirne.com, June 9, 2016)
- [Apple’s New Map](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aa829594a7f5/) (justinobeirne.com, November 2, 2018)
- [Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9f6e37182886/) (justinobeirne.com, October 3, 2019)
- [Apple’s New Map, Expansion #6: Midwest + Western U.S.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff951b6dd787/) (justinobeirne.com, November 20, 2019)
- [Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/77cf080def80/) (justinobeirne.com, January 30, 2020)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/