We saw what do they need to provide location services, and extracted most commonly used data — POI database with rich attributes, visit informations, real time location tracking and so on on the top of map data. Now let’s see how they are collecting the data and improve. First thing…

Previously, we briefly saw what’s the problem of recent location tech, how can we improve it, and what tech giants are doing with it. Yup. Then, is there any possibility we can start the location product and improve as we saw? …

Previously we could understand what’s the underlying problem of modern location technology. Long story short, map and database based on it is different from the human eye view and GPS signal in the real world. And fairly enough amount of offline confirmation — data pair of place name and offline…

Why can’t ride hailing apps locate ourselves precisely when we are trying to book cars especially in a random / strange place? Or, why does the maps application takes some time to locate ourselves while using the apps to find nearby places, usually in the downtown area? Have you ever…

At first, I just want to make clear that, I am using O2O service as ‘do something online for offline activity’. Taxi, food delivery, payment or even e-commerce. So, it’s already 21st century, but we still can see very primitive fraud like overcharge in taxi or local market as a…

Working as a product manager means a lot of things. Project management, user communication, performance management, project management, launch planning, or sometimes monetization and business development can be involved. Well, sometimes some of those works are handled by separate role. But anyway, product manager is not a simply defined role…

I was a software engineer and changed my role to product manager quite long time ago. I was one of the first member who changed role from engineering to product. So I’ve got many questions from software engineers who want to change their roles or just curious what product managers…

First of all, what is well localized or internationalized? Localization can be considered as “Translation of the service to a certain language.” yes, that’s true. And internationalized means ‘localized for multiple countries or languages’, probably. So, from here, what is ‘proper translation or well localized’ ? I want to define…