“Our aim was to create one seamless, browsable map of the entire world – an Earth that you could browse,” John Hanke, co-founder of Keyhole and vice president of Google’s geospatial division until 2011 told the Guardian.
Later in 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions, but it wasn’t until the launch of satellite imagery that Hanke saw how committed Google was to the project. “It wasn’t the first out there, but the role of Google Maps in transforming digital maps, making them popular and bringing them from a tech niche into the public consciousness cannot be underplayed.” “Yahoo beat Google to web maps and MapQuest beat it to turn-by-turn directions, but people didn’t stand up and take notice until Google Maps came along,” said Gary Gale, the Ordnance Survey’s head of APIs. Google Maps launched in the US on 8 February 2005 and in the UK two months later, though by that time it wasn’t the first digital map of its kind: Yahoo had beaten Google to it with a redevelopment of its long-standing Yahoo Maps in 2004. To access your Timeline, open Google Maps on your computer or the Google Maps app on your smartphone.Google Maps launched in ‘beta’ in 2005.You can use Timeline to review your Location History privately on mobile and desktop, edit it, as well as pause the recording of your Location History and turn it back on. The Timeline gives you an estimate of places you’ve been to and all the routes you’ve taken based on your Google Maps search history. Google Maps offers you one more way to visualize your entire location history and view all the places you’ve searched on one map. How to Use the Timeline to Manage Google Maps Search History You can also manually remove the search entries from the list one by one. There’s an option to delete your previous Google Maps searches from the last hour, last day, and an option to set a custom time. To delete your previous searches using the Google Maps app on your mobile, select Menu > Delete, or Menu > Auto-delete. All items automatically appear in Bundle View on your phone.
You can scroll down to browse through your entire search history, use a filter to see the search entries from a specific time, or use the Search your activity search bar to look for a particular place in your Google Maps search history.
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