July 17, 2006 Shanghai JieTu software company on the launch of the city bar street map, the first domestic to street map search services as the characteristics of the site, which even earlier than Google.
When it was launched in 2006, City Bar applied for several patents, including two invention patents directly related to street view, which have been authorized. As of today, Jetto has been authorized 10 invention patents related to panorama and street view. So when Google Street View was launched in 2007, a large part of the technical patents they used came from Shanghai JieTu. But the growth of a new industry, must be a large number of enterprises and users *** with the participation in order to achieve. So whether it is the domestic street view manufacturers or Google would like to see more companies to prosper together street view this market, after all, only the cake is bigger, everyone will be divided into more and better. So it is not difficult to see, in fact, Jetto is the first to launch Street View service manufacturers rather than Google. Subsequently, there were several street view providers in China one after another, such as Soso Street View, I show China and so on.
CityBar first released Street View maps in 2006, which made the original boring map reading more interesting and was well received by many media and users.
Starting in 2007, Google then followed suit by launching its own Street View maps, and implemented its own Street View service globally, which more and more people began to know and pay attention to, and more and more people used Street View.
Data updating and maintenance is the biggest advantage of domestic vendors. CityBar has collected street view maps of all provincial capitals, and so far, it has data of more than 40 cities in China. And Soso and Leadspace are not far behind.
Baidu Maps will soon launch Street View maps, it is reported that on August 22, 2013 Baidu World Congress Baidu LBS will announce the launch of Street View, which will compete head-on with SOSO Street View, Baidu this time on-line Street View data is provided by the domestic mapping site that started to do high-definition street view in 2006 - City Bar. The street view data provided by CityBar is large and precise, because Shanghai JieTu is a company that relies on three-dimensional reality to develop enterprises, outstanding performance in the technical aspects of Soso as a traditional Internet enterprise to accumulate the user base, which can bring better prospects for the development of street view.
This idea of domestic enterprises joining hands to make the street view service bigger and better is not unattainable. The person in charge of City Bar said that they are happy to cooperate with outstanding domestic manufacturers to realize ****win. At the same time, the city bar has been with several map-related enterprises in-depth cooperation, from which it is not difficult to see, strong and strong, complementary to the strengths of the effective way to better development may be.