When Google Maps/Earth came out I remember distinctly an immediate sense of completion at the ability to explore everything instantly. This is it, this is all

When Google Maps/Earth came out I remember distinctly an immediate sense of completion at the ability to explore everything instantly. This is it, this is all of the things. The whole world right there explored and surveyed and mapped and labeled and catalogued and borders drawn. There's no mysterious potion shop whose location is whispered and forgotten in time, no unknown shipwreck full of treasure on an unreachable beach, no secret dark alley hidden through a hedge that leads to Hogwarts. No Hogwarts at all, we've already looked everywhere for it. You can just get on your pocket computer from the couch and pull up the picture of it taken on June 5th with the reflection of the Google mapping car in the window and littered with discarded Starbucks cups and some blurred out licence plates.