In the morning, John went out of the house with a newspaper under his arm, San Francisco, which had been cloudy for a few days, began to clear yesterday, and the golden color of the morning sun paved the road. The morning breeze blows slowly, a few leaves fall from the landscape trees on both sides of the road, and there is a thin layer of mist floating on the sea surface of the bay area in the distance.

The San Francisco Chronicle Building, where he works, is located on Evangel Street, not far from where he lives, so he took a leisurely stroll, had breakfast on the corner of the street, and arrived at the office just in time to go to work.

"Hi John, good morning!"

"Good morning. ”

Greeting people he knows all the way, since he attended a Facebook press conference last year, and got Ahn Junhyuk's classic answer of "on the other side of the network, is it a man or a dog", he has become a celebrity in the company, the reason is naturally that after the famous quote appeared, it was widely reprinted by other media, and according to the regulations of the news industry, the source must be indicated for reprinting.

Arriving in his office cubicle, John spread out the newspaper as usual and went about his day—thanks to the rush to reprint in the media, he now has his own column, and instead of having to hunt around for material as before, he usually looks through the newspaper or the Internet to see which of the many stories are valuable, and then digs deeper.

Not long after sitting down, the colleague next door poked his head out: "Hey, is there really no inside information?"

John knew what he was asking, the news that Facebook, J.H, and Apple were going to work together to develop a map product. Because of the difference in strength and status of the three companies, it has attracted a lot of attention, but unfortunately, whether it is Facebook or Apple, the interview requirements on this topic are ignored, as for the J.H network...... Speaking of which, if it weren't for this news, no one would have paid attention to such a small company with only an empty shelf, and people would not even know who its person in charge is, let alone contact for an interview.

"Ryan, I've already said that. There's really no inside information. John was a little helpless. Everyone knew that he had interviewed Ahn Junhyuk and thought that there was a personal friendship between them, so they wanted to open a breakthrough from him, but he really didn't know about it. Ahn Jun-hyuk was interviewed by him at the beginning. Most of it was in return for his initial support for Facebook.

Seeing John's expression a little impatient. Zhilu said that the other party had been annoyed by the questions one by one recently, and Ryan raised his hand: "Okay, okay, I won't ask." But John, don't you want to know what they're going to do? Speaking of which, you haven't published anything about that map product, are you not optimistic about it?"

Glancing at him, John didn't speak.

Of course he wanted to know about it. In his eyes, An Junhyuk has always had a wise and wise impression, since he got the news, different from the general doubts of the outside world, he does not think that An Junhyuk invested in his own industry, and pulled the map product jointly created by Apple, it will be a luxury "big toy".

But he is also a mature adult, a journalist, and he will not casually express support or opposition until he has figured out the key points and come up with the right idea.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ryan, who was about to fail, shrugged his shoulders and returned to his seat, continuing to type on the keyboard, not knowing what Lu Dao was doing.

Being disturbed by him like this, John couldn't settle down anymore, and read the newspaper again, but he always wandered, tried for a moment, and noticed that his thoughts were still confused, so John had to stop working and turn on the computer to relax.

Perhaps influenced by Ryan's previous inquiry, the first page he opened was Facebook.

Looking at the familiar page on the screen, John smiled wryly and moved his mouse to turn it off - although he was optimistic about Facebook's future, he didn't like to use it himself.

The mouse moved on the interface, just before clicking on the browser close button, John's gaze that hurriedly swept across the page suddenly stopped, his eyes instantly fixed in a position, his expression first froze, and then, what appeared on his cheeks was surprised!

Facebook's familiar user profile, in the function menu column, has a new feature that is eye-catching in red: Jmap.beta!

J…… Map beta?

For a moment, John almost thought he was wrong, and in fact, everyone, including him, thought that the so-called joint development of J.H., Apple, and Facebook would probably not be available until next year.

This conclusion is derived from the construction process of digital maps, such a product, it first requires developers to write a set of frameworks, and then purchase the map of the national surveying and mapping agency for preliminary input and vector layer correction, in order to achieve commercial-level accuracy, the input and correction project is extremely large, and the development time of one year is still the result of estimating the efficiency higher.

"Could it be that Ahn Joon-hyuk has been making this thing a long time ago?"

John subconsciously thought so, and then became a little excited, as a supporter of Ahn Junhyuk and Facebook, he is probably the last person in journalism who wants this map product to mess up, and in the past few days, some people have expressed opinions openly and covertly, which makes him very pessimistic, and he feels a little surprised at this moment.

With Ahn Joon-hyuk's anticipation, John clicked on the "Jmap" function button and ......

John's eyes widened.

The page that popped up was indeed a map, but what made him speechless was that the map was unbelievably rough. The whole page shows some satellite basemaps stitched together by tile engines, and looking at the terrain, it should be the San Francisco Bay Area.

On top of this basemap, there is a layer of vector layers that can be clearly seen to belong to the haste of work, the position of the road is marked with a dotted line that has obviously not been accurately measured, and the deviation is serious...... This part is omitted from the vector layer, and the POI layer does not have a building identity. No street names, nothing!

This...... This is the map product developed by the three companies?

At the moment when John was shocked, there was already an uproar on the Internet because of Facebook's new map. Many media people who have been following Facebook's dynamics noticed Facebook's newly added map function menu for the first time, and after using it for a while, their first reaction was that either Facebook and Ahn Joon-hyuk went crazy today, or today is April Fool's Day!

Even the least optimistic about this so-called map product. I don't have the audacity to guess. The map jointly developed by the three companies was actually shoddy to such an extent.

"Calm down...... Calm ......"

John took a few deep breaths, lest he get too excited and curse. He thinks even Ahn Joon-hyuk is crazy. Facebook can't go crazy with him en masse. This map...... It's just a child's graffiti.

Maybe the beta operator linked to the wrong image gallery?

John refreshed again in a frenzied refresh without giving up. But the result was the same every time, and gradually, his heart began to cold.

This feature has been open for a while. If there was a mistake in the image library, the operator should have noticed it a long time ago, but it has not been corrected until now. During the refresh, a colleague seemed to have discovered a compartment not far from him, and there was an exclamation: "Oh my God! What is Facebook doing?"

"What's wrong?"

"What's the news over there?"

The originally quiet office area suddenly became lively, and the man hurriedly shared his findings with everyone, and then the entire office area was full of exclamations and playful laughter.

"Hah...... Is it April Fool's Day?"

"April Fool's Day is still early! Crazy Man's Day is almost the same, Ahn Joon-hyuk must have broken his brain, it's hard to believe that he would do such a thing. ”

“…… Facebook doesn't want to continue doing this?"

"yes, is the whole company crazy?"

Listening to those words of disbelief, surprise, and sometimes schadenfreude, John slowly stopped refreshing, and his heart was cold.

If this is Facebook's so-called map product, then it's over, he said.

Users will not believe a shoddy website, the media will be crazy sarcastic sarcasm, beating the water dogs, journalism does it every day, and it can never be done enough, Ahn Junhyuk, who once brought glory to Facebook, people will no longer remember his classic quotes and the charm of his speech, he seems to have been able to see, after today, on the Internet, in the newspapers, that overwhelming accusations and shameful laughter against him!

This was almost close to the real prediction, and John couldn't breathe.

At this moment, another voice came from a distance: "Hey guys, what's the button that this icon on the map is a puppy?"

"Where is the icon is the button for the puppy...... Huh, I've got a crutch button here!"

"I'm on crutches here too. ”

"Me ...... too"

With the man's reminder, everyone around them noticed that the rough map, in addition to the map scale that the villain had already marked underneath, also had a seemingly redundant button.

John also found out in his map interface, and it's also a little crutch!

He looked at the icon, probably mourning more than dying, and without hesitation, he clicked it directly.

Anyway, it couldn't have been worse.

The moment the mouse clicked on the button, the computer speaker made a ding-dong sound, and a dialog box popped up:

"Congratulations, Mr. John, you've completed your adventure, and now, dear you'll be invited by all of Facebook's lovely engineers, lovely Zuckerberg, and the hateful Ahn Joon-hyuk executive to join our 'Guide Dog' operation, work hard, your friends Julie, Chuck, Phoenix...... We are waiting for you to join us on a great voyage of confusion!"

“…………”

John was dazed, what was it?

At this time, in other places in the office area, the sound of Ding Dong also sounded one after another, and then, someone shouted: "Hey, what is a guide dog operation?"

"yes, what does this prompt me to join the guide dog action, what does it mean?"

Then, the voice that had first noticed the button sounded again, and the owner of the voice, Ha Luha, laughed and said, "Mine is different from yours, and this reminds me that I have now become a great guide dog...... Ha Luha, a puppy appeared on the map, it asked me to provide the geography around me as soon as possible, if I can upload a piece of real geographic data with a range of more than 50 meters, it will reward me with points worth 2 dollars, which can go to the virtual store to buy gifts for my friends...... Haha

Game?

Everyone was stunned.

……

……

"Hey, why are you all cute, only I am hateful?"

Palo Alto, Ahn Joon-hyuk looked at the prompt on the page he clicked on, and helplessly asked Zuckerberg, who was excitedly directing the puppy to spin around the map, "Also, why do you rarely participate in sharing, but you can become a guide dog?"

"Ha Luha, this is the problem of technique, boy. Zuckerberg proudly raised his eyebrows at Ahn Jun-hyuk, but he avoided answering what only Ahn Jun-hyuk was "hateful" and they were all "cute".

Zhilu said that this was another prank he was doing, and Ahn Junhyuk shook his head and smiled.

After about five days of urgent work, the map product he envisioned finally had a prototype and started testing today. It is the first time for everyone to make a map database in the way of crowdsourcing, and he has no specific experience including the initiator of the concept, so it is obvious that it is the easiest way to let users choose what to do.

The map is initially named Jmap, and the user is invited to participate in the perfect planning, which is codenamed "guide dog", which means that the map is in its infancy, it is simple like the world in the eyes of the blind, and the guide dog is involved in the improvement of the map, and they will lead people to touch the map world clearly little by little.

In order to improve the fun of the game, "guide dogs" are not available to anyone, the first batch of products because of the beginning, so Facebook will be based on user data, select a part of the users who usually actively share things around them to become guide dogs, the system will be based on the real address they entered when registering, assign a piece of area located nearby to them, by them to improve, the reward is Facebook just launched points.

But the identity of the guide dog is not static, within the specified time, if the guide dog user does not upload the real geographic data, or the uploaded data is wrong, their identity will also be deprived - this process is supervised by ordinary users, in the map page, the corrector of the real geographic data of each area will automatically record their ID, ordinary users can upload the data "thumbs up", can also "step on a foot".

Even, if an ordinary user has objected to the data and uploaded more real and detailed data, he can automatically become a guide dog. (To be continued......)

PS: The number of words is slightly less, and it is not enough to make up tomorrow