Google Maps knows all

And as we saw in A Year of Google & Apple Maps, Google has been using computer vision and machine learning to extract business names and locations from its Street View imagery. In other words, Googles buildings are byproducts of its Satellite/Aerial imagery. And some of Googles places are byproducts of its Street View imagery......so this makes AOIs a byproduct of byproducts. This is bonkers, isnt it?Google is creating data out of data.

It appears the competition (Apple, Microsoft) are so far behind they don't even have the data they need to create the data that Google has.