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Correction: Keyhole became Google Earth. (Fun fact: the K in KML is Keyhole.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Correction: Keyhole became Google Earth. (Fun fact: the K in KML is Keyhole.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History
Google Maps stems from an Australian company called Where2, which AFAIK was not funded by spooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions
- cpeterso 6y agoMore history about Google's mapping products is available in Bill Kilday's book "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality". Kilday was a founder at Keyhole, the startup acquired by Google to become Google Earth.