{"id":316761,"date":"2019-08-19T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=316761"},"modified":"2019-08-19T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:03:43","slug":"huawei-is-working-on-a-competitor-to-google-maps-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/316761-huawei-is-working-on-a-competitor-to-google-maps-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Huawei is working on a competitor to Google Maps &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei is planning to launch its own navigation app which would function similarly to Google Maps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201908\/13\/WS5d5214b9a310cf3e35565685.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>China Daily<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese company&#8217;s mapping service will reportedly be named Map Kit, and will not be designed as a consumer application. Instead, it will enable developers to build navigation apps based on its mapping capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei&#8217;s Map Kit platform will include mapping data for 150 countries by partnering with various local mapping services, and the service will be available in 40 languages.<\/p>\n<p>This service could potentially aid Huawei in retaining crucial consumer services if it loses access to Google Maps and other US-based applications.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei recently launched its new Harmony OS platform, which it said is not a competitor to Android and would first be rolled out to IoT and smart devices.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony OS could be rolled out to smartphones in a <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/316631-we-could-deploy-harmony-os-to-smartphones-in-a-day-or-two-huawei.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8220;day or two&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> however, making it a potential &#8220;Plan B&#8221; solution if Huawei loses access to Google services and apps.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/316709-huawei-threatens-legal-action-against-the-wall-street-journal.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Huawei threatens legal action against The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei is planning to launch its own navigation app which would function similarly to Google Maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":307062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2272,1982,60521],"class_list":["post-316761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google-maps","tag-huawei","tag-map-kit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}