I rode along to find out why Google's still spending billions on maps

Описание: Google is driving every inch of every street of every country in the world… and they still want to do more. How is it worth it for them to keep pouring billions into their map?

Explore “Macy’s museum of mapping history” in Central Park https://google.com/maps/@40.7650806,-...

Watch Macy’s extended cut of her coffee and smoke break with Mirza
   • chatting with the guy who drives the stree...  

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Intro music by Caleb Moore https://open.spotify.com/artist/5MvhD...

More to read and watch if you liked this:
“Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking” article on Google’s country-by-country map design
https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno...

Never Lost Again, a great book about the startup Keyhole, which Google acquired and turned into Google Earth and Street View https://bookshop.org/p/books/never-lo...

How to Lie with Maps, a book about map design and the necessary lies by omission that come with condensing the real world into a map https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-l...

More info on Google’s “unofficial Street View”    • The secret economics of Google Street View  


Ever wonder who pays me what in these videos? I’ll tell you!
Google did not pay us anything for this, and did not have any editorial oversight in the making of the video. They just let me wear their cool backpack and ride in their cool car.


Video chapters:
intro 00:00-00:56
overview of how maps works 00:57-04:34
using the trekker in Central Park 04:35-07:58
google’s politically “neutral” map design 07:59-10:35
wtf is ESRI 10:36-16:07
exploring Bosnia 16:08-17:54
in the Street View car 17:55-22:55
smoke break with Mirza 22:56-25:17
Macy's museum of mapping history 25:18-25:42


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