How It Works: Google Maps
My previous post about Google Map and its street view leads to a simple question: ‘How does GoogleMaps–and GoogleEarth too–take the entire earth and allow us to see big cities in street-view with such great details?’
I found this article, explaining how Google maps the world and let us fly around and see what people are doing on the street.
I’m wondering how big is their storage to keep those map pieces. It’s surely a humongous database with smart algorithm to retrieve the correct map pieces and combine them together at a blink of eye. Web applications are getting more powerful than ever, peeps!
2 Comments
Chris Prasojo on November 2nd, 2007
Glad to hear that this blog benefits you!
I’ll maintain the quality of this blog for wider audience.
Have a good day NanYou!
nan you on October 31st, 2007
oh, i see. so it doesn’t mean that i lanuch the google earth or google map ,and i can see the street view of some big cities .
it’s not live.
i see.
i thought i can type new york in google map and see the street view of new york in seconds.haha, how dumb am i .
hehe:)
thanks , chris, i learn a lot from your blog.
thank you.