Currently, in Vietnam, many businesses have invested in developing a separate digital map platform for the Vietnamese market. However, not everyone is successful and not everyone is as powerful as Google. So what is the best development direction for the development of this technology field?
It is not difficult to find out how many digital map products and services are currently available in Vietnam. However, about the digital map platform (Maps platform), there are only a few.
So what is the digital map platform?
“The real estate platform is a software and database system used to build and manage digital maps.
Real estate platforms often include technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS), web technologies, and others to create properties that are accurate and easy to use.”
Why do Vietnamese businesses race to develop their own digital map platform?
Most Vietnamese users are already very familiar with Google Maps.
And when I heard that Vietnamese businesses are racing to develop their own digital mapping platform. Almost everyone will have questions: "Google Maps is free, why not use it but spend time, effort and money to invest in a separate digital map platform?"
Actually, Google Maps is not as free as you think!
For users, they just need to download the map application and use it. However, they are trading off personal data including:
- Location Information (GPS)
- Travel habits (route, time to move, ...)
- Search habits (search information on the map, the search engine, etc. Surely many times, you will see that after you search for something on Google, a little bit after an advertisement, article, etc. about it. it appears continuously)
What about the management of enterprises and the state?
Everything seems to be very unfavorable!
Google Maps (active) update frequency is usually very slow. Most of the changes are thanks to the contributions of a large number of Google Local Guides.
And surely you can't help but know the scandals about Vietnam's "territorial sovereignty" over the sea and islands in the East Sea all this time!
So if Vietnamese people use the Vietnamese digital map platform, what advantages will there be?
First of all, it is information security, user data safety.
Next, it will provide immediate support and continuously update data to meet the needs of businesses and government agencies in Vietnam.
And above all, current Vietnamese technology is not inferior to major technology platforms in the world.
Delivering a quality, effective product is entirely possible.
Of course, it cannot be ignored that it is much more cost-effective than foreign map services in general and Google in particular.
For reference, currently, the price of using digital map platform services from Vietnam is only somewhere between 20% and 50%, the price of Google Maps. This will help Vietnamese businesses save quite a bit of operating costs.
What does Google map have, Vietnam map is there
Regarding the Vietnamese map feature, it is not inferior to Google Maps.
Diverse features, multi-platform integration, Map APIs with full outstanding and optimized features.
And moreover, the maps from Vietnamese businesses are full of tile maps. 2D, 3D, 4D map format, full geographic information data. And details, road traffic signs, cold fine camera warning…
In the future, Vietnamese people will be able to safely use Vietnamese maps.
Hopefully, the above information will help you more in the field mapping (mapping) in Vietnam.
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