Google Maps was launched in 2005 and provides map information from satellite images, street views, and more to desktop and smartphone users. It acquires data from various authoritative sources and uses algorithms to process imagery and extract text for street names. While convenient and accurate, some concerns include privacy, copyright infringement, and data not always being up-to-date. Many popular applications like Facebook and taxi apps integrate Google Maps functions.

1. Name: Najeebullah Sadiq
Roll No: 2129
Semester: 3

2. ABOUT GOOGLE
MAPS
• launched in 2005
• web mapping service and technology supported by
Google that can be used on desktop computers and
smartphones
• provide various map information including satellite
images, street views, weather, traffic, business locations,
and more

3. HOW GOOGLE MAPS IS
CREATED?
• acquire authoritative data from postal services, governments, and
well-known maps e.g. US Geological Survey
• combine them with Google's internal data, including satellite
imagery, aerial imagery, and Street View imagery

4. HOW GOOGLE MAPS
IS CREATE D?
• use computer algorithms to carry out geometry editing
algorithms used e.g. optical character recognition(OCR) technology:
recognize and convert the words in the Street View imagery into the text to
extract street names

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8. SURVEY
• Survey objectives:
The popularity of Google Maps
What people do in daily lives with and without Google
Maps
Whether Google Maps brings advantages or drawbacks to people
• Survey link: http://goo.gl/forms/X1NSLJP3FF
• No. of response: 32

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using Google maps
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about technology
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The older generation do not familiar with new technology
Reason: Difficult to adopt the technology era

11. 2. REASONS OF NOT
USING GOOGLE MAPS
Why don't you use Google M aps?
some problems with
the innovation:
1. Too complicate
2.the data is not
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updated)
3.may not really useful

12. 3. REASONS OF USING GOOGLE MAPS AND
ITS ADVANTAGES
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Wh at a re the adva ntages of Google Ma p s?
Convenient
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Easy to use
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convenient
Reasons: 1. easy to
check information in
anywhere and anytime
2.with a few clicks, we
can search location
3.many functions

13. 4 . TRADIT IONAL METH ODS
OF FIND ING LOCATION
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when they need to find a location.
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14. 5. CONCERNS OF GOOGLE
MAPS
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concerns? (1:weakest; 5: strongest)
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Reasons:
not up-to-date
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update the maps
of whole world
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15. 6. APPLICATIONS THAT ARE
KNOWN FOR USING GOOGLE
MAPS
Do you know the followingapplications have used the function of Google
Maps?
OpenRice
Facebook
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Instagram
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1. uniqueness:
the app is in the form
of thematic map,
showing specific
information
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often use the check-
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popular social
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17. Google Earth?
• Google Earth is a computer program that renders a
3D representation of Earth based primarily on
satellite imagery.
• Free available for both Desktops and Smartphones
• Available as a Desktop application.
• Develop by Brian McClendon on 2007
• Imagery is updated every couple of years

18. How is the imagery collected?
Satellites
Satellites give us global views and that is all 2D imagery.
Google Planes
When we are closed to the ground, we need 3D data, that’s collected by
planes.
And constructing a 3D model.
Using computer vision to remove overlapping in the pictures.
If one computer process googles earth’s images they will take 60 years.

19. Version of the google earth
1. Google Earth pro
Google Earth Pro - This current desktop version, now free to use, has
many features, including displaying satellite and aerial imagery, a
growing set of layers of mappable data, the ability to display third-party
data, tools for creating new data, and the ability to import GPS data.
Can print and save high-resolution images.
Google has created a Google Earth Education site to provide helpful
information on using Google Earth with students.

20. Continue…
2. Google Earth for Web
Available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera)- An easy-to-use,
browser-based version that provides ease of accessibility but is limited
in terms of functionality. This version can load kml or kmz files, can be
used to search for places, and can be used to follow a story from a
collection contributed by various individuals and institutions.
3. Earth Engine
Combines satellite imagery and geospatial data with many analysis tools
including the ability of the user to add their own algorithms for real-
world applications.

21. Each of these versions of Google Earth can be used to read and create
data in KML (Keyhole Markup Language) format, which enables
educators, students, and other users to share data.

22. CONCLUSION
People nowadays are fami liar with technology. With the development of
smart phones, Google Maps, which is an essential and portable tool on
directing,is getting more important and commonly-used.
It is also embedded in many websites and applications that people are able
to use it for different purposes,e.g.finding restaurants nearby and making
tax i calls.
It is likely that Google Maps will have a larger coverage of users in the near
future as mapping technology is getting accessible to everyone with the aid
of Internet.
Google Maps is one of the innovations in the decade that brings great
improvements to our lives.

23. References
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps
2. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Google-Maps
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#
4. https://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/google_earth/what.html