Coming soon: “Facebook Maps”?

With each update of its toolset, it may appear to a regular user that Facebook is beginning to compete with Google on each and every front!

Following the launch of its internal browser, and tests to see if it can get independant from Google’s ‘Play Store’, Facebook is now working on its own ‘Maps’ app.

On February 22nd, the social network released a note: “Connecting the world with better maps”. It says that Facebook is implementing a system capable of mapping the planet and analyzing the distribution of inhabited places.

Of course, Facebook has its commercial interest at heart: the goal is to spot population without internet access, to be able to optimize the group connectivity. In short, Facebook wants to reach people it hasn’t reached yet.

Once again, Facebook’s continued ability to innovate visibly sets the massive firm apart from its social media counterparts.

The network has already implemented two important innovations since the beginning of 2016: the “reactions” (different emoticons you can click on instead of the classic “like”) and the smartphone live streaming (not yet available on a mass-scale).

The mapping project should be made public sometime in 2016.