
Google CEO Sundar Pichai also pointed to TikTok as one of his company’s newest, biggest rivals - particularly with regards to YouTube. (TikTok opens to the “For You” page, which shows videos from users you may not follow that have been recommended by the app’s algorithm.) Spiegel said Snap will compete with TikTok by continuing to focus on connections with family and friends, rather than strangers - an approach that he said has been core to Snap’s success. "TikTok got this great lead early on by really aggressively expanding, spending a huge amount of money to do that, so that people can train the algorithm and ultimately end up with a much more personalized feed that's harder to get on a new service,” he explained. That large user base is what has enabled TikTok’s recommendation algorithm to become so strong, Spiegel added. “It was a totally different strategy than any technology company had expected before because it wasn't an innovation-led strategy it was really about subsidizing large-scale user acquisition.” market, and of course in Europe, because it was just something that was unimaginable - no startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world,” Spiegel said Wednesday night. You could even add each as a layer to one web map, then once added to ArcMap and Pro, you can turn each on or off as needed."What nobody had anticipated in the United States was the level of investment that ByteDance made into the U.S. Select “A Tile Layer” from the pulldown menu. Once logged in, open a new web map then click on Add and select “Add Layer from Web”.

To do this, you need an ArcGIS Online account.

Building on that example, I was able to do the same for ArcMap and Pro, but in a round about way. In late 2019 I did find a way to add Google Maps to QGIS 3. For a government agency, replacing authoritative GIS data with crowd sourced data might not be a good idea.īack in early 2014, I took a look at adding Google Maps to ArcMap using some available programs/add-ins, but all were disappointing. So you want to add Google Maps to ArcMap or Pro? Impossible you say? Well here is an early Christmas present just for you … yes you can!īefore you proceed, think about why you would want a crowd sourced Google Maps basemap in your GIS anyway? There are better solutions today, like the basemaps provided by ESRI or even your own creations.
