The so-called real map search service is what we call street view service. When it was launched in 2006, City Bar applied for a number of patents, including two invention patents directly related to Street View, which have been authorized. Up to now, Jietu Company has obtained patents 10 related to panorama and street view. So when Google Street View was launched in 2007, a large part of the technology patents they used came from Shanghai Jietu. However, the growth of an emerging industry can only be achieved with the participation of many enterprises and users. Therefore, both domestic street view manufacturers and Google hope to see more enterprises prosper the street view market together. After all, when the cake grows bigger, everyone will get more and better.
So it is not difficult to see that JetMap is actually the first vendor to launch Street View service, not Google. Then several street view providers appeared in China, such as Soso Street View, I Show China and so on.
In 2006, City Bar released the street view map for the first time, which made the original boring map reading more interesting and was well received by many media and users at that time. Beginning in 2007, Google immediately followed suit and launched its own street view map, and launched its own street view service on a global scale. Since then, more and more people have begun to understand and pay attention to street view. The more people use it, the more problems it causes. Updating maintenance data is the biggest advantage of domestic manufacturers. If Google enters China, it is bound to collect domestic street view data from scratch. This huge and complicated collection process is most beneficial to the existing domestic street vendors. As far as domestic street view manufacturers are concerned, City Bar has collected street view maps of all provincial capitals except Lhasa, and has data of more than 40 cities in China so far. And the space for finding and standing is not far away.
Although Soso Street View has many users, its data is street view map data provided by City Bar, which greatly limits the subsequent development of Soso Street View. But from another perspective, it also provides a good way for the development of the two companies. City Bar provides a lot of street view data, because Shanghai Jietu Company itself is an enterprise that relies on three-dimensional real-life development. Its outstanding technical performance and the user base accumulated by Soso as a traditional Internet enterprise can bring better development prospects for Street View.
It is not impossible for domestic enterprises to join hands to make street view service bigger and better. The person in charge of City Bar said that they are happy to cooperate with Soso, and of course they are happy to cooperate with other excellent domestic manufacturers to achieve a win-win situation. At the same time, City Bar has conducted in-depth cooperation with a number of map-related enterprises. It is not difficult to see from this point that it may be an effective way for better development to join forces and learn from each other's strengths.