Google Maps began in 2005 as a simple map of the United States for desktop PCs and developed in a comprehensive navigation tool within a few years that affected the history of the Internet and smartphone. Over the years, many tasks such as current traffic status, street view and fuel -sending routes have been added. Google Maps was also an inspiration for alternative navigation apps such as wedges, henwego or Apple maps. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, we see the most important development and benefits of the most used navigation app in the world.
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“All in One” solution
Google Maps combines some applications, for which various devices or websites were to be used in the early days of the Internet. Route planning and navigation changed GPS-based navigation devices which became popular in the early 2000s. “My Business” replaced yellow pages and yelp with its ratings and the opening time of shops. And information about sightseeing makes a travel guide in the shape of paper.
Wherever you are in the world, as long as there is an working internet connection, you can use Google Maps to find almost everything and to experience various things. Thus this application provides a width of possibilities that other colleagues can hardly reach, which is definitely due to immense resources that Google can invest in the project due to its size.
Street View Panic in Germany
The story of Google maps is not without controversy. Google launched the new feature “Street View” in 2007: On the map you can drive through photos of Staysen trains that were created by a fleet of special camera vehicles earlier. When the Street View came into Germany after three years, the data protection authorities called the spot – and the residents who could pixes their homes.
The German Street View Panic finally inspired Google to withdraw its fleet and in addition to some metropolitan areas, mainly included empty space on the street view card. In recent years only Google has sent its cars to the German streets – now without great opposition.
Meanwhile, it is probably strong that the road view is appropriately useful. Google is sometimes attempted to take pictures of remote areas or hiking routes. Snomeobiles, camels or even scout groups are used. The community can also participate in the street view and upload pictures – such as scenes of the Faror Islands created by sheep.
But elsewhere, Google Maps also became a political issue: In 2010, a Nicaraguan military commander moved into a lake called San Juan due to the border drawn into the map, which he believed that he belonged to his country. In fact, the region was of Costa Rica and an attack was immediately scared. This created almost crisis in the area.
And the Cambodian government also complained in the same year that the border of its country for Thailand was incorrectly said. Google then promised to check the boundaries of more than 60 countries and regions.
Somewhere else, Google was conveyed to criticism when algorithms and artificial intelligence were considered to remove fake reviews, but some valid reviews were also filtered. On the other hand, according to business owners, it was also very easy to write negative reviews and it was very difficult to remove them if they were baseless.
World in Google Maps
On 8 February 2005, exactly a year after the publication in the USA, Google Maps also began in Germany, Spain, France and Italy. It was the beginning of a global campaign. Today, Google mapped more than 250 countries and was included in its proposal.
The same year, the first mobile version of Google Maps falls on the market. First for Blackberry and Palm, which were spread at that time. The device will be available in 2008 application for Android and also for iOS from 2012.
At the end of 2009, as we know today, navigation will be made in the map and thus form the basis for a complete navigation system, which will also be implemented on smartphones in 2013. Integration of the Railway Schedule is possible for the first time to plan cycle routes in 2012 and in 2013.
In addition to other small tasks, the “my business”, which begins in the middle of the middle -2014, and the pictures of the shops with the maps at the middle of the middle -2014, and the photos of the shops are an important and development. Till date the last major expansion of the limits of works was the integration of Gemini of In -House in Autumn 2024.
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