How Does Google Maps Work?

Google Maps is an incredibly convenient tool to search for places across the globe! How do websites like this work? Trace is here to discuss how satellites are able to show us maps of the world in great detail.


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[tukodprojects]

"The first spy satellites were the corona satellites"

2020: wHut?!

[farhanzaidi]

This video does not even mention how google maps works.

[castrocafe]

I love how when you read it through captions, it says "am I right?" As, "Amirite?"

[alianisz]

This video only answers 25% of the question.

[adrianthorneycroft]

Non of the images on Google maps are older than 3 years?
Challenge accepted

[JukaDominator]

Trace is the best host, always picks the best and most interesting subjects to talk about and keeps them entertaining. Can't say the same about the other hosts on this channel...

[theprivatefexi]

`google lied...
my house was build 5 years ago
and on google maps its still one big sand pit

[invisiblejaguar]

It's amazing what we can do in this day and age, but it also makes me wonder what other forms of technology governments could be hiding from us.

[EddySan]

So a lot of the stuff show on this video was from Google Street View, not satellite images. They're totally different ball parks. One is hundreds of miles in space, the other is from pictures taken from a car driving around or a guy with a street view bike. Am I the only one annoyed by this?

[dagonnemo]

I have nothing to hide from anyone that I can't get in side my house or under ground so I'm all for this stuff getting better.

[airlove]

I think Google hates my school because it hasn't been updated since 2009. My school was demolished and remodeled, yet Google maps doesn't show my new school, which was built in 2012.

[badassbiscuit]

the length of this video makes me happy :D 

[marksusskind]

I ride the NYC subways all the time, and back in the '90s, I was thinking how interesting it might be to show a projection of the streets above as we ride underneath, highlighting points-of-interest and pertinent trivia.

[pooploopify]

If you pause at 0:00, judging by Traces facial expression, he is screaming in his mind "OBVIOUSLY THE FUCKING SATELLITE MOVES AROUND AND TAKES THE PICTURES OF THE DAMN GROUND!"

[GamersTrue]

Why do I see street view in this video when it has nothing to do with satellites?

[externitiy]

well the guy in the intro, im stalking him right now in 2018!! LOL

[blackflagdoomguy]

He's wrong on one thing, some images ARE older than 3 years, on google maps my house still doesn't have the extension that was added to it in 2007

[network_king]

Using google earth in class, some of it is really amazing. I found you can even make out things like powerlines.

[PaolOerfurt]

One Day its able to play GTA in google earth / maps data.

[TharSai]

corona satelite????
2020 like here....