The Forgotten Mapmaker: Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google by Alexis C. Madrigal.
What’s Nokia’s secret? Twelve billion probe data points a month, including data from FedEx and other logistic companies.
Notice that the logistic companies are not collecting mapping data per se, they are delivering goods.
Nokia is building maps based on data collected for another purpose, a completely routine and unrelated purpose to map making.
Does that suggest something to you about semantic map making?
That we need to capture semantics as users travel through data for other purposes?
If I knew what those opportunities were I would have put them at the top of this post. Suggestions?
PS: Sam Hunting pointed me towards this article.