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Local GPS mapmakers up against mobile giants

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Local GPS mapmakers up against mobile giantsLocal GPS mapmakers up against mobile giantsRecently, Hong Seok-beom and Lee Jae-myung #xgave theirHydraulic power unitsKia a facelift. They installed four special cameras on it, then connected them all to a laptop, and threw an extra digital camera and camcorder in the back for good measure. They then set out to map Korea.

Hong and Lee work for M&Soft, a small company that makes automatic navigation systems. Their contraption is designed to capture the shapes of buildings and directions to help update the company’s navigational database.

The two managed to cover a total of 500 kilometers (311 miles) that day, but they might have to head out again should a new expressway or apartment complex be built.

That time commitment costs a small enterprise a great deal for smaller returns. “With the rising popularity of smartphones,google优化, which come equipped with a navigation system, smaller firms like M&Soft are struggling to compete,” said Hong, who has been with the company for four years.

“The only way small and midsized firms like us could compete with the largeHydraulic power unitstelecommunications or cell phone device companies would be to make maps with as many details as possible,” he said. “I believe that, however developed satellite photos are, a map is best when made by individuals.”

Navigation companies like M&Soft are struggling to find a place for themselves next to big companies like Google, Naver and Daum, which all offer free map services for smartphone users.

When Google announced in October last year a plan to provide its Google Maps service for free to users of Android-based smartphones, the stock prices of Garmin and TomTom, the two leading navigation service companies in the United States, dropped 16 and 21 percent, respectively, in a single day.

Despite the coming challenges, however, Korean navigation systems companies including M&Soft and Fine Digital have insisted that their services offer special features that those based on satellite imaging cannot, such as three-dimensional maps. To prove it, they have increasedHydraulic power unitsinvestment #xin research and development.相关的主题文章：

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