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It’s hard to argue that Google Maps hasn’t had a fundamental effect on the mapping world. While everyone else was still doing grainy static images, Google developers quietly developed the slickest interface since Gmail. Then they took terabytes of satellite imagery and road data, and just gave it all away for free.
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© 2006 Michael Purvis, Jeffrey Sambells, and Cameron Turner
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(2006). Introducing Google Maps. In: Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0224-0_1
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