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How Crowdsourcing Changes Mapping

Apple and Google have been using GPS information to monitor and report on gridlock and traffic speed estimates. In early July, Apple published a patent application describing routes based on user ratings and real-time accident reports. Bill Slawski points to the application and tells us how the crowdsourcing traffic stat would change mapping services.

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