Mary, I have not worked in the GPS mapping industry, so am unaware of their specific pricing structures. My knowledge comes from work in the Optical Character Recognition, Text To Speech, and Speech To Text industries, ending about eight years ago.
That said, I heard an interview with someone from APH at last year's CSUN conference. The person said APH was working directly and very closely with Google. I would guess that Google has given APH a special deal since APH is a nonprofit organisation. Google has developed their own maps/mapping database software, and their system also interfaces quite well with the Geographic Information System GIS maps databases. I know that other public organisations are working toward developing more user-friendly interfaces with governmental GIS database systems. For the most part, many countries provide free access to the raw data. The problem is that much of the raw data is unusable for GPS because of various reasons. Also, the amount of data varies greatly across areas / regions. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 01/03/2013, at 14:02, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I am not sure if on line maps are cheaper. The American Printing House has > just issued their blindness-oriented gps app on Android and, drum roll, it > uses off line maps. Same small market, maybe even smaller, since as of now, > it is only marketed in the U.S. and for the android-using population of blind > folks. And my guess is there are fewer blind Android users than i-device > users in this country. So, you may be right. But how, then is APH doing this > with off line maps? And it is interesting that the reaction to folks to that > app has been the opposite of what has happened here, that is, people want on > line, not off line maps. As the saying goes, you can't win for losing. > > Mary > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
