[Nextgrid]

They could just use a third-party (and at their scale, they can definitely negotiate a custom deal where they feed back usage data to improve the third-party’s service) or even use open source solutions like OpenStreetMaps. Even the latter (with the overhead of hosting it themselves) makes total sense at their scale.

[0xDEFC0DE]

That'd be in a contract though, so what if Google decided to not renew and only let Uber know like a month before the contract ended?

If these questions seem dumb it's because I know pretty little about legal battles in software.

[tomnipotent]

I'd wager this contract has a 90+ day termination notification requirement at a minimum.