Google draws the road in Argentina

Published by Scavenger in Innovation, Internet

Undoubtedly, Argentina is in honour recently: match of absolutely uninteresting rugby in the Velodrome, Maradona which makes his in its new role of sports coach, business of censure on Internet, Nothing of glorifying very you will say to me. Fortunately, this night was a chance to see coming into sight a good news for Argentina and its territory, since Google Maps finally included the detail of streets and roads of the country!

Argentina, it is not Luxembourg. A territory the area of which stretches over 2 766 890 km , or about 5 times that of France, and covered by more than 400 000 km of not willy-nilly asphalted roads, one might as well say that the job of recognition had not to be some cake.

And really, process asked of time according to Google, who waits for several years due to the lack of information on the roads of the country. The research of the ideal candidate for the inventory of roads the Argentinian line turned out to be difficult, due to the area to cover and the quality of cards to give, and it is finally thanks to Geo Sistemas, a local firm preferred to the Instituto Geogr fico Militar, that could finally be implemented in Google Maps.

But work is not finished, and functionality will come little by little: first the adjournment of information on the mobile version of Google Maps, which should be real next week. Then is envisaged the realisation of the research of addresses, followed by the calculation of routes, then of she researches of points of interest nearby, and eventually, tremendous Street View, already in place on cities as Paris, Lyons and Marseilles

It will then be possible to visit Buenos Aires virtually, and to recollect the nice restaurants where it was possible to suffer there empanadas and other bifes of lomo :cry:

In the meantime you can always redraw my points of passage on the Argentinian territory, where to try you to the Castilian, by throwing an eye on the article appeared to this subject in Nacion.

Key words :Argentine, Georeferencing, Google, Service

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5 answers in Google draws its road in Argentina

neby55 says :

November 19th, 2008 in 10:34

In when Street View with Bar The Duke!!??
Dul says :

November 20th, 2008 in 12:19

to you ace not the impression that the argument of the complexity of job performed is completely false?

I seldom heard such a rotten argument I must say.

1-You really think that the Brazilian or Chilean roads are better than the Argentinian?

2 - You really think that he is simpler all over example of cartographier the amazonienne forest than the province of Buenos Aires?

3-Speak about Peru also, where by experience I can assert you that them Argentinian road true motorways with side are.

4-Look at the countries which are not still on googlemap (Bolivia, Paraguay )

That yahoo has include since a right time the Argentinian roads and that on openstreet all Buenos Aires is set up has hollowing-out nothing to see.

Go my bichon, let us say that Google nothing is interested in Argentina to lose in comparison with competition, to see with complexity on the ground surely more to see with the fact that complained IGM to cross to Google the cards!
As for Maradonna that he takes in into the becon of the old fascist at the head of the Argentinian federation am not a bad thing! For the rest I like the football only when Marseilles loses and what Rouen reaches to say

PS: it is what the brilliant knack of googlestreet?
Dul says :

November 20th, 2008 in 12:26

PPS: you think that problem is the same for the Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Guyana? it is true that IGN is a big incompetent.
Scavenger says :

November 20th, 2008 in 16:01

Oh well, Dul, I thank you for these comments which go contrary to the political cants which I could read in Nacion! Really, in the reading of your arguments and in my small knowledge of Argentina, I would say that there must be a history of pence behind all that. But finally, we will never know the truth, and what matters when all is said and done it is the service in which will have finally accesses the argentinians, need notably demonstrated by a group on called Facebook GoogleMaps in Argentina, YA! .

As regards StreetView, I confess that it is advantage the technical benefit which impresses me, rather than the utility of the thing
Dul says :

November 20th, 2008 in 16:17

I realise that I forgot massu argument, even if I recall it by speaking about IGN.

I will be strong supris that IGM is not a complete cartography of the Argentinian territory. Blow there is two possibility, is IGM consider that it is strat giques data and that they refuse to cross her in Google, what will surprise me seen that yahoo has them. Let be Google what was not near to accept condition of IGM what seems completely probable.

As for Nacion you would well make to give up reading this newspaper concept of which is more disinformation than information.
On the contrary to know the truth about the bottom of affair should not be very complex. Several research base, which are data used by yahoo, which is the cost of data by way of IGM for example.

StreetView, it is a pretty technical challenge, but for me a loss of colossal money. But Google with good right to play.

For political cant, well I like not too much, bad faith I say not sorry