How Google's Building The Best Maps In The World

    Making maps is harder than you possibly imagined. "I came away convinced that the geographic data Google has assembled is not likely to be matched by any other company. The secret to this success isn't, as you might expect, Google's facility with data, but rather its willingness to commit humans to combining and cleaning data about the physical world."

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    How Google's Building The Best Maps In The World

    theatlantic.com

    Making maps is harder than you possibly imagined. "I came away convinced that the geographic data Google has assembled is not likely to be matched by any other company. The secret to this success isn't, as you might expect, Google's facility with data, but rather its willingness to commit humans to combining and cleaning data about the physical world."