Uber
wants to
build a
better map. Next stop? Australia.
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Like Google and
even Tesla,
Uber wants to map the world down to the right-hand lane and Australia is the focus of its latest effort.
Following mapping projects in the U.S., Canada and the UK, as well as Mexico and South Africa, the transport giant is launching locally on the Gold Coast Monday, with a wider rollout to follow.*
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"Existing maps are a good starting point, but some information isn't that relevant to Uber, like ocean topography," Manik Gupta, head of product at
Uber Maps, said in a statement emailed to
Mashable.
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