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Which Mapping Service Should We Select in China?

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017)

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The mapping services have been widely used in our daily lives. People can use the services to find his/her nearest POI (Point of Interests), the shortest travel route from a source location to a destination location, and even life services like booking hotels, calling taxis and so on. Consequently, more and more mapping service providers have emerged in the past years in China, like Baidu Maps, Amap and Sogou Maps. However, there is no existing study on how to select the suitable one for users/developers when they facing so many different mapping services, which is the problem that we focus on in this paper. We first design a questionnaire and analyze the results to show the current mapping service situation in China; then, we introduce and summarize the most three popular native mapping APIs in China, e.g., Baidu Maps API, Amap API and Sogou Maps API, to give readers a brief guider for selecting their suitable mapping services.

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Research reported in this publication was partially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China (Project No. JUSRP11557), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Project No. BK20160191).

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  1. School of Digital Media, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

    Detian Zhang, Jia-ao Wang & Fei Chen

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  1. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois, USA

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  3. University of New South Wales , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Lijun Chang

  4. The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Zhang, D., Wang, Ja., Chen, F. (2017). Which Mapping Service Should We Select in China?. In: Bao, Z., Trajcevski, G., Chang, L., Hua, W. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10179. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55705-2_4

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