Photos uploaded to the site were accessible as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps. [1][2] The site's goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing …

A "dead map" is a term often applied to sensitive government maps that show the location of top secret facilities and other highly sensitive installations within a country.

2012: Apple Maps, the first vector-tile based mapping app, [29] is launched, replacing Apple 's own Google Maps client as the default mapping app for its platforms.

United States: Bing Maps Streetside, which provides street views of many cities across the U.S., is Microsoft's main competing service to Google Street View in the United States.

The company launched Google News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google Maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011 (which was shut down in …

Google Maps can be used to find coordinates 3 different ways, although many other sites make use of Google imagery with specialist overlays. The simplest way to get coordinates from …

Tiled web maps are normally displayed with no gap between tiles. A tiled web map or tile map (also known as slippy map[1] in OpenStreetMap), is a web map displayed by seamlessly …

Where 2 Technologies and Google Maps In 2003, Lars and his brother, Jens, with Australians Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, co-founded Where 2 Technologies, a mapping-related start-up …