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The big innovation with Google Maps was the interactive zooming/panning interface, and it was a huge improvement over any other mapping site of the time. The p
by jlarocco 8y ago
The big innovation with Google Maps was the interactive zooming/panning interface, and it was a huge improvement over any other mapping site of the time. The popular map service of the time, MapQuest, had clunky scroll and zoom buttons around the sides of the map image, and moving around or zooming would reload the entire page. The GMaps interface wasn't just a marginal improvement over the existing pages, it was a completely new way of doing it that was 100x easier to use.