![]() ![]() Along with this Google also acquired a geospatial data visualization company, Keyhole, a real-time traffic analysis company, ZipDash. In 2004, Google acquired a small Sydney-based company, Where 2 Technologies, and their idea for a web-based mapping software. The mapping platform that is Google Maps had relatively humble beginnings. Just how does this miraculous world-covering map work? How does it gather, organize, and make available this astounding amount of geographical data? To put it simply, it’s a combination of data collected and processed by satellites, government agencies, Google employees, and well, you. ![]() Google Maps came around, and paper maps have now become practically non-existent. And good luck trying to look at the stars at night and figure out where the hell north was supposed to be.īut then years ago, things changed. Sometimes the road ahead might have been blocked for construction and you would have had to double back. Sometimes the motel marked on the map would have closed two years ago. In this way they make a damage to the Maps that is bigger than the benefit that we can have from an updated image from the satellite.There was a time, not too long ago, when looking at a map meant unfolding a large piece of paper and reading the tiny letting and trying to figure out where you were and how you could get to where you wanted to go. I have discovered great contributors, but sometimes I have a big delusion, and I see that s ome of us unfortunately is more for points than for helping people, uploading duplicate photos, or stolen photos, violating the rules tat we should follow, and I am always asking to myself: "why do they do this?". When someone, like you, is talking about providing correct information, I like to check the profile in Maps, because I wants to learn from who wants to provide correct information. Google is actually working in several improvement of the Map, and they prioritize what give benefit and is helpful for a bigger amount of people.Įven if I am an extreme lover of Google Earth, I think that there are things that really should be improved first, because there are more ways to inform the people about places, and one of them is what we do as Local Guides, or at least what we should do. Well an ideal world everything is perfect, free and always updated. ![]()
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