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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Map - Wikipedia

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    A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements also the same thing of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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    The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site.: 56–57 Johnson named the area "Paradise Ranch" to encourage workers to move to "the new facility in the middle of nowhere", as the CIA later described it, and the name became shortened to "the Ranch".

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ...