Make up assignment 2/9

1. Google has taken the world’s “physical information” and turned it into something useful that people can access every day. By compiling all different kinds of data from several different sources, it has comprised a realistic and advanced map that covers over five million miles of the world. People drove all around the world with cameras on top of their cars to give the map real street view images.

Apps like Google Maps have come a long way to help people with the even worst sense of direction navigate their way around. Google Maps appeared on smartphones when the first iPhone came out in in 2007, changing the game on how people used and viewed maps. However since Google Maps first came out as an iPhone app, many competitors have come up with new apps of their own, creating even more features that Google Maps now has to compete with.

Not only does Google Maps offer street view images of cities and streets, but it has also compiled imagery of places you can’t drive to like Kenya, the Liwa desert, the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon, other cool places around the world.

2. Although having the street view imaging on maps can be very helpful to see where you are going, it can be somewhat distracting. I would never use the street view imaging while driving because I would get way too confused/distracted and probably end up getting lost looking for details on the map that may or may not help me find where I am going/what I am looking for.

3. I thought the video with the camel in the desert was really incredible. I don’t know when else I would ever be able to see raw footage of the open desert.