The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
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The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
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Re: The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
#2I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
Re: The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
#3I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
GMail was a heavy AJAX user and predated Google Maps.
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#4I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
I was hopping for any detail.
The ajax part was not that innovative. As with every product that succeed, the content was awesome. How did a startup with 2 people living "out of maxed out credit cards" in early 2000s even acquired mapping data in the first place?
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#5Someone unrelated but I met Luc Vincent, an instrumental leader in developing Streetview. Although he's at Lyft L5 now, it's amazing to see how Google is able to expand to so many domains.
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#6Not to be confused with Google Earth, which was purchased from Keyhole.
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#7Does anyone remember Microsoft Terraserver? An extremely slow mapping solution that predates Google maps.
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#8I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
Whenever people talk about how IE ruined the internet, I think about AJAX. I actually thought IE was great for the web. A poignant example I remember was, if you got a /TR /TD out of order, Netscape wouldn't show the web page at all. It'd work fine in IE though.
IE just made it so much easier to move fast in web development. People blast IE, but I really don't think the web would be as good as it is today without it.
Contrast that with what Chrome has done to the web. Not good.
Re: The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
#9I was hoping for a little more detail around the beginnings of AJAX. I know it was added to IE to support Outlook in IE but I thought Maps was the first big use of it outside of Outlook.
AJAX's origins are actually really cool. It started before XmlHttpRequest. If I recall correctly, when the user took an action that required a server response, the javascript would make a 1px by 1px iframe and load it to a specific URL with the important information in the query parameters. The response would look something like this
someGlobalFunction({
searchResults: [
{"name": "Joseph Paul"},
{"name": "Joe McCray"}
]
});
Re: The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
#10Great read! I recently read Bill Kilday’s book: Never lost again[1] which is a fantastic read if you want to learn more about the pre-google-maps and google earth days.