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Google Maps Turns 15

Published on 6 February 2020 by Jonathan Crowe

New Google Maps logoGoogle is marking Google Maps’s 15th birthday with updated iOS and Android apps that reorganize everything into five tabs, new crowdsourced travel data, and a new app icon. (The update hasn’t turned up for me yet, but that’s not unusual.) Also with a fair number of reminiscences and corporate navel-gazing self-reflection. CNBC, Engadget, The Verge.

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