How Is Google Maps So (Generally) Awesome? Big Data, But Also A Big Project

“Satellites and algorithms only get you so far. Google employs a small army of human operators (they won’t say exactly how many) to manually check and correct the maps using an in-house program called Atlas. Few people outside the company have seen it in use.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/12XZtVj

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