Google Maps has grown over the years to become one of the most important mapping and navigation online services available to Internet users, whether on desktops or mobile… and Google isn’t done improving it. Wired has taken an extensive look behind the curtain, revealing some of the secrets that make Google Maps a must-have application on smartphones, tablets and computers. FROM EARLIER: Latest Google Maps update brings awesome new features to Android The publication reveals that Google Maps isn’t simply the result of complex algorithms at work — although Google has several of them in place looking at all the data it gathers — because-“meticulous manual labor” is also part of the recipe. Ground Truth is the combination of algorithms



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