Microsoft scrambles for Internet map market Google Maps has been affected

On March 28th, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Google Maps is one of the many aspects that Google is better than Microsoft. Google Maps has so far dominated the Internet map service. For this reason, Microsoft is working hard to counterattack. It has been providing OpenStreetMap, an open source mapping project, with a great deal of technical and financial support. It now appears that this tactic has begun to gain.

OpenStreetMap works like Wikipedia. Volunteers provide map information to create a free, open map service that can be used by individuals and companies. This service has been supervised by the non-profit OpenStreetMap Foundation. The foundation said that 500,000 volunteers have provided it with data.

Any success achieved by OpenStreetMap means that the dominance of Google Maps has been eroded. If OpenStreetMap and Bing services are closely integrated, Microsoft can also benefit from it. Currently, Google Maps still leads. According to analysis, 71% of the 92 million people surveyed chose Google Maps when using online maps. Surveys from FourSquare, Apple, and many smaller companies show that OpenStreetMap has begun to have a certain impact on Google Maps. Microsoft’s battle for the open source mapping market has begun.