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  2. File:Google Maps Logo.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Google Maps Logo.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 154 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 61 pixels | 640 × 123 pixels | 1,024 × 197 pixels | 1,280 × 246 pixels | 2,560 × 492 pixels | 1,000 × 192 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 1,000 × 192 pixels, file size: 4 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia ...

  3. Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps Pin. Rasmussen designed the Google Maps pin while he was employed by Google. The pin is a simple pointer with a bubble top which tapers to a narrow point with a drop shadow. A Google spokesperson told the New York Times that Rasmussen avoided using a star or dot on the map, because they would obscure too much of the map. The Google ...

  4. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. [2] It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google ...

  5. Tiled web map - Wikipedia

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    A tiled web map, slippy map [1] (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually requested image or vector data files. It is the most popular way to display and navigate maps, replacing other methods such as Web Map Service (WMS) which typically display a single large ...

  6. Argleton - Wikipedia

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    Argleton was a phantom settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth but was later removed by Google. [1] The supposed location of Argleton was between the A59 road and Town Green railway station within the civil parish of Aughton in West Lancashire, England, in an area of empty fields. [2] [3] Data from Google is used by other ...

  7. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  8. Alphabet Inc. - Wikipedia

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    On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page made this announcement in a blog post on Google's official blog. Alphabet was created to restructure Google by moving subsidiaries from Google to Alphabet, thus narrowing Google's scope.

  9. Category:Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Sightsmap. Google Street View. Street View Trusted.