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		hahaker on Sept 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 on Sept 12, 2016 | [–]

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 on Sept 12, 2016 | [–]

It's called snap to roads (interpolated mode): https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/roads/snap

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