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Maps counts, I think. But that's going back awhile.
by chalst 7y ago
Maps counts, I think. But that's going back awhile.
- cpeterso 7y agoGoogle Maps was not an in-house project. Google assembled it by acquiring mapping companies Where 2 Technologies and Keyhole.
- chalst 7y agoI should have checked Wikipedia at least, who link to a 2005 CNET story on the Where 2 acquisition. - https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mapper-take-browsers-to-the-limit/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mapper-take-browsers-to-the... It looks like a talent acquisition: the Where 2 codebase was a C++ app, nothing to do with the Ajax implementation they rolled out. I'd be interested in learning more about this story.
- cpeterso 7y agoGood news! :) Bill Kilday, a founder at Keyhole, wrote a book about Keyhole, Where 2, and Google Earth and Maps: "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality". It's not very technical, but it has a lot of interesting history about the products' development and internal Google politics. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062673041 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062673041
- paganel 7y agoWhich is the reason why import and export files for Gmaps/Google Earth are called .kml [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language