Sentence examples for proprietary mapping from inspiring English sources

We will introduce open source and proprietary mapping and GIS software options and let attendees choose to work through exercises using ESRI ArcGIS (proprietary) and/or Quantum GIS QGISS) (open source).

Google's pursuit of proprietary mapping data is another sign of its ambitions in location-based services.

Now think for a moment about the incredible amout of data and value that is locked inside proprietary mapping databases.

Skobbler has built a business out of transforming OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into a series of consumer apps — such as the hybrid online/offline maps app, ForeverMaps2 — as well as licensing its mapping engine technology to third parties so they, in turn, can plug OSM data into their apps — as an alternative to paying to use Google Maps (or another proprietary mapping data provider).

Skobbler has built a business out of transforming OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into a series of consumer apps — such as the hybrid online/offline maps app, ForeverMaps2 — as well as licensing its mapping engine technology to third parties so they, in turn, can plug OSM data into their apps — as an alternative to paying to use Google Maps (or another proprietary mapping data provider).

The map was created using the company's proprietary mapping population.

On Apple's new mobile operating system its proprietary map app has, to put it mildly, cartographical lacunae.

They also agreed to add supplementary neighborhood map options — online versions of the proprietary maps already used in M.T.A. stations.

Google Maps remains the popular alternative to the Cupertino-based giant's proprietary maps application Apple Maps which suffered from a controversial and much-maligned launch in 2012.

Crowdsourcing also gives the open-source project an advantage over Google Maps, which is engaged in its own effort to build proprietary maps for cities in Africa and the developing world.

As OSM founder Steve Coast told me in an interview earlier this week, he believes that the OSM data can now compete with proprietary maps in most areas.