Never lost again : the Google mapping revolution that sparked new industries and augmented our reality /

Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution of mapping technology, the "overnight success twenty years in the making." Bill Kilday takes us behind the scenes of the tech's development and introduces to the team that gave us not only Google Maps but Google Earth, and most recently, Pokém...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kilday, Bill (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperBusiness, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Google Maps. Maps > Computer network resources. Geographic information systems > Social aspects. Digital mapping. Internet in cartography. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography.

Table of Contents:

WHERE ARE WE GOING?: THE START-UP YEARS. The Superman thing
Powers of ten
The green folder
Out of gas
Situation room
Behind the curtain
Series B or Series G?
RECALCULATING: THE GOOGLE YEARS. Feeling lucky
Table for 33
A friendly wager in Building 41
Launching Google Maps mania
Sparking a new industry
Hello, Google Earth
Dashboard for the planet
You: a blue dot
Okay, Google, where am I?
Street cred
4,000 lattes
Google's new eye in the sky
Project Ground Truth
Moonshot complete. Now on to Mars
Epilogue: Did you get one?