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Google Maps Gets 25 Million New Building Footprints

2012-10-22T18:28:00-04:00

The latest update brings 25 million new building footprints to Google Maps, making Google’s map offering even more detailed and comprehensive. The new building footprints have been created by a computer, which processed actual aerial imagery and rendered the shapes of buildings in the maps. Users can help out and fix inaccurate building footprints in Google Map Maker, as well as assign businesses to existing buildings or even draw the entire building footprints themselves.

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

2012-09-06T18:03:00-04:00

It's common when we discuss the future of maps to reference the Borgesian dream of a 1:1 map of the entire world. It seems like a ridiculous notion that we would need a complete representation of the world when we already have the world itself. But to take scholar Nathan Jurgenson's conception of augmented reality seriously, we would have to believe that every physical space is, in his words, "interpenetrated" with information. All physical spaces already are also informational spaces.

Tilt-tables and Google Maps make a game out of environments

2012-04-28T17:17:00-04:00

How much have books or film influenced your sense and recognition of place were you've never been before? And how about games, as developers push for more accurate and realistic map models? How will the ability to interface with all aspects of real-world data affect our future perception of space and place?

Built using Google's Start Here technology.

Google to open campus in Frank Gehry's Binoculars

2011-11-03T18:40:50-04:00

Wojcicki said the new campus — three adjacent buildings including Frank Gehry-designed Binoculars Building — would also help Google attract candidates from area colleges and universities... The company's focus on Web search is evoked by the iconic binocular sculpture at the site, created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

9/11 Memorial Gets Google Mapped

2011-09-22T14:14:49-04:00

Google is committed to providing our users with the richest, most up-to-date maps possible. [...] In this case, the edit for the 9/11 memorial site was made by a map maker user on Sept 12, 2011.

That was fast.