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Kilday, Bill.
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Google Maps.
Maps -- Computer network resources.
Geographic information systems -- Social aspects.
Digital mapping.
Internet in cartography.
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Kilday, Bill.
Google Maps.
Maps -- Computer network resources.
Geographic information systems -- Social aspects.
Digital mapping.
Internet in cartography.
MARC Display
Never
lost
again
: the
Google
mapping
revolution
that
sparked
new
industries
and
augmented
our
reality
/ Bill Kilday.
by
Kilday, Bill.
HarperBusiness, 2018.
Call #:
338.761526 K48n
Subjects
Google
Maps.
Maps -- Computer network resources.
Geographic information systems -- Social aspects.
Digital
mapping
.
Internet in cartography.
ISBN:
9780062673046 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvi, 347 p. ; 24 cm
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?
Summary:
"
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, Pokémon GO. He takes us back to the beginning to Keyhole--a cash-strapped startup
mapping
company started by a small-town Texas boy named John Hanke, that nearly folded when the tech bubble burst. While a contract with the CIA kept them afloat, the company's big break came with the first invasion of Iraq; CNN used their technology to cover the war and made it famous. Then
Google
came on the scene, buying the company and relaunching the software as
Google
Maps and
Google
Earth. Eventually, Hanke's original company was spun back out of
Google
, and is now responsible for Pokémon GO and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Kilday, the marketing director for Keyhole and
Google
Maps, was there from the earliest days, and offers a personal look behind the scenes at the tech and the minds developing it. But this book isn't only a look back at the past; it is also a glimpse of what's to come. Kilday reveals how emerging map-based technologies including virtual
reality
and driverless cars are going to upend
our
lives once
again
.
Never
Lost
Again
shows us how
our
worldview changed dramatically as a result of vision, imagination, and implementation. It's a crazy story. And it all started with a really good map."--From the publisher.
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