HumansOfGoogleMaps

An everyday archive

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Through the years

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A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated)

Google has now issued an official response to the strange story of a man causing traffic jam reports on Google Maps.

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30 Best Accidentally Taken Animal Pics By Google Street View

Since its humble beginnings in 2007, Google Street view has gone on to map out the entire world through photos, making it a perfect place to explore our planet from your desktop. The internet empire has attached its Street View cameras to all means of transport and even mounted them on people, meaning that the most unexpected places and scenes are sometimes captured by the all-seeing eye that is Google.

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Man and dog -- who walks who ?

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How Google Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map

Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection

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This Little Dog 'Ruined' Every Frame Of A Google Street View By Chasing The Camera

Yet, now it's perfect.

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The "Colonial Cartography" of Google Maps

At Real Life, Apoorva Tadepalli examines the ways that maps, historically used by state power to claim and represent territory, have changed

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mr.w0bb1t 🌐 on Twitter

“Possibly one of the finest #GoogleMap photos I've ever seen. 🤦🏽‍♀️ The utter hopelessness is delicious. 🖕🏽 #FuckOffGoogle”

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Lounging // Around

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Hanging // Out

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Peace // out

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Break // door

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Google Maps is adding a Where’s Waldo? mini-game for the next week

Inside of Google Maps on Android, iOS, and desktop, you’ll be able to search for Waldo and his friends from the classic children’s puzzle book.

Where’s Waldo edition

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The art of Google Maps

Jenny Odell's digital collages give a new perspective on the industrial world

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Over the shoulder//Assemblage