Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape
- World wide web supported the first online maps in 1993
- In 2004, Danish brothers Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen went to Google with an idea for a web app that would not only display static maps
- 50 people set out building Google Maps
- Google Maps launched in the US on 8 February 2005
- 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions
Google Maps didn’t stand still. Later in 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions, but it wasn’t until the launch of satellite imagery that Hanke saw how committed Google was to the project.
Googles maps have always been unreliable in my eyes. John Hanke, co-founder of Keyhole and vice president of Google’s geospatial division until 2011 told the Guardian. Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, he said, thought that geospatial – data and information related to maps and location services - was a key element of Google’s organising the world’s information.
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