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by charlesdm 3278 days ago
That sounds horrible though. Another abomination in the making. The effort to align all those map providers is probably quite significant. Such a massive waste of efforts and engineering time.
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I don't think so. Google is actually in a perfect position to do that. They could just unilaterally announce they'll support other map providers if they conform to a specified Google API, and guess what, map providers will do it, forced simply by power of competition.
If I ran a mapping website I'd bend over backwards for a chance at that embedded sidebar Google spot. Everyone would.