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hahaker
on Sept 12, 2016
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Using Open Street Maps and Kalman Filters to Clean...
This seems very useful, but isn't Google Maps doing similar stuff already? And if not, what are their concerns?
tapan_pandita
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The Google Maps APIs are point in time. Using OSM and Kalman filters, we can continuously snap points to the road in realtime. Plus it's a lot faster doing it on our own database than calling external APIs.
sureshv
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It's called snap to roads (interpolated mode):
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/roads/snap
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