Something I always admired about my father was his ability to navigate the area without a smartphone. He worked an hour away from where we lived and it seemed no matter where I wanted to go, he knew the way. Then you look at me and I use GPS everywhere I go. Even routes I know, just in case they’re delays and/or shorter routes I don’t know about.
I remember this vividly as a kid. My parents trying to navigate using mapquest directions and one missed turn by dad can cause an explosive argument in the car. Not fun.
" I don't know how to get around without it now." - i feel like using google maps so much has actually made me learn how to use maps in general. Well, not just google maps, but cycling a lot - I have a more intuitive sense of what a maps "means" when it shows something.
One of the interesting features not mentioned here is how Google allows their subscribers to become local guides in putting in their input and local know-how into the Maps. The use of local guides allows Maps to have not only detailed street views but also a unique perspective into how a street point (i.e. shopping mall, small businesses, tourist attractions) looks like with photos and short video clips of these places.
The problem with that is that if you give a business a negative review they can make Google remove your review. I have reviewed over a hundred businesses in three states and about 5% are negative and of those more than half are deleted. I don't lie and I don't use inappropriate language nor do I say anything that I know of that is against Google's policies. But it seems that instead of responding, businesses can simply contact Google and tell them to delete a negative review. What's the point of reviewing if you can't tell the truth. Here is an example, a business in Clearwater Florida has a manager that bans mask wearing in his store. He kicked me out and threatened to call the police because I had a mask on and he said only robbers wear masks. That when he pointed to a sign on the door that read "NO MASKS ALLOWED!" So I changed my previous review to one star and included the above information. A month later my review evaporated. So I reposed it and it happened again. Then I looked carefully and noticed other negative reviews had also disappeared. This is true for several businesses in my city and not just my negative reviews disappear. So you cannot trust any review given by local guides which I used to be one but no more. There is no point.
@@josiekailee2081 yeah I know that number cus I invested 1bitcoin last 2 month and now I have about 7bitcoin which is really amazing!!! Kudos to her..... You can also check her on Facebook @Mcmoore sofe Mandy but she replies only to trading and she is really nice
I remember when Google Earth came up, it was a mindblowing experience that changed my perception of how things are. Now, I don't go anywhere new without Google maps!
I've actually done that with Google Maps. There have been times when it made sense to just read the map, get an idea where I'm going, and then go from there without having to go by the GPS step by step.
There are ads, you just don't realize they're ads. Search Maps for a local mom and pop diner, then search for the closest Dennys or IHOP. Chances are the information for the Dennys or IHOP is more filled out and probably ranks higher in search. Someone paid Google for those rankings so you would choose to go to Dennys instead.
Lol yes. I like Apple Maps only because it links with my Apple Watch vibrating when to turn left or right. Nice since sometimes I just doze off cruising. If google maps did that would be excellent.
yeah it depends the country, for example here in Sweden and Denmark google maps doesn't work very good, I only use it in case that im biking (still a pain in the ass to use it)
Security issues. When you follow Google Maps, Google follows you. If GPS alone tracked the people that use it, people would be outraged, accuse the US military of spying. Google Maps has become nearly as popular without the public or governments really scrutinizing what information gets collected. Yes, this seems late, but the real story is that people freely share their location all the time. Notice this is NOT "how to use Google Maps", its about how widely used it's become in a very short time.
I remember when I was in 8th grade in 2008 being completely stunned when we discovered Google Maps street view. Lol 😂 12 years later, Apple still doesn’t hold a candle to google maps.
This is a reasonably good overview of the mapping industry over the past 10 years. Google Maps certainly has the best POI data and mobile device user base numbers, and these combined with continuous indoor/outdoor Positioning data will deliver enormous value to Google and its users for many years, especially when AR becomes mainstream.
To be fair there’s a pretty long list of equally bad slip ups by Google. Whole islands and large mountains mysteriously disappearing, people driving into lakes while using their turn by turn, errantly marking people’s driveways as park entrances etc… 🤣
At least Apple maps actually does its job. Google maps takes about 15 mins to even figure out where I am, suggests completely inane routes that take longer for no reason at all, and freezes any time I switch to another app for a moment. There is not a single update in the last 10 years that hasn't made google maps more buggy and more broken.
B4 dat u had 2 buy at a grocery store but it was pain cuz it would be like 60 different types so u had 2 unfold it fold it ect. Til u found da 1 u need
I remember having a glove box stuffed with maps and a pile of street atlases under my seat. I'm glad I never threw them away since Google maps just became worthless this week with the elimination of functionality in the measuring tool.
@@jadoo782002able literally the best maps app okay so basically say we live in the same area say all of us do we’d all have little icons when using Waze so you know if someone’s went down a road to see a cop or if no ones been down it and you need to watch out it’s great because you instantly can report a cop where you pass and tell them it’s like hidden or so and it just is a great community all looking out for each other
@@jamescook3675 hopefully you two won't be that truck driver that attempts to take a route not suitable for trucks and get your trailer hung up on an upgrade, making people who live directly behind you to do a 10 mile detour... those guys..😖
@@pickolascage1283 the type of drivers you're talking about are the inexperienced ones with no wisdom of knowledge on what to look for when traveling. Seasoned professionals drivers know what to for so you won't be in a jam 10 miles back.
Uh.. I still have to ask people despite already using Google Maps. We have so many alleys in my town that don’t get mapped properly in google. I’ve also had bad experiences of Google Maps led me to go through some strange roads. So, yeah, it’s always safe just to ask people.
Hey bro it works all but can a paper map give me every street update every home because here's the thing paper maps from 2005 do not have my road over here they do not exist this entire section of my land of my entire neighborhood does not exist on paper maps it's all farmland
GPS. Many more people used GPS, but it's expensive to buy, expensive to upgrade. Stupid Garmin made it ridiculously expensive to upgrade just the software map. Google Maps came free with cell phones and updates constantly for free.
I can't believe you didn't even mention real time traffic data off the major highways which was the main reason I started using Google Maps about 10-15 years ago. For the time, it was ingenious how they used everyone's location data to determine direction and speeds to put together that information.
Looking forward to seeing more walking/hiking trails and offroad areas being covered by Street View. Some of the areas local to me have been done already but not the bigger, more popular areas. I would be happy to carry their back pack while walking some of the trails.
@Dandy Honestly I mean thats just splitting hairs. The title perfectly explains what its about. If I watched a video about "the rise of genghis khan" I'd understand that it'd be the backstory behind genghis khan and his empire. I'm sure there are countless relevant examples of this, and if you don't understand my point let me know and I'll easily find one for you.
Other than navigation, I'm using google maps to see how life would be different if I lived in the U.S instead of a sh*t-hole 3rd world country in the middle east that have no civil rights.
@@jammer1993 Same I do 😄 I live in Argentina. Sometimes I see different parts of the USA and Europe to see what is the lifestyle of first world countries. Google Maps is a really useful tool 🌎
@@GUSTA99X lucky you my brother live in Haiti where civil unrest all of the time I'm pretty sure am use to massacres and people flying and dead bodies all over the street so.
Google Maps was my best friend when I went to Tokyo last year and it was a breeze. And some of you might know that the Tokyo subway station is one of the most complicated subway stations in the world.
Lol! It was my best friend too when I travelled to NYC for the first time. It helped me out when I took the wrong train and became lost in the middle of Brooklyn! 🤣
@@JulezWinnfield You could argue that the excessive battery drain caused by google maps, will cause the battery to chemically age faster, reducing it’s effective capacity. Which ultimately reduces the phone’s resale value. So yes the financial value of the battery is affected by google maps. :)
We need dark mode app wide in Google maps asap. A dark mode is kind of their when navigation is on, and if the sun has set in your location. And if you have an oled display, save your battery with black color schemed dark mode.
Thank you tech gods. Now I won't be lost like the dumb little puppy I am. I pray to google every night for my data being collected to be safe from harm. 🙏🙏
Even though one may know the route to their workplace, using Google Maps daily to get there might just save you from getting stuck in a jam that you wouldn't know about otherwise.
Even better than the GPS directions is the amazing API, which allows websites and app devs access to those same capabilities, accelerating growth and adoption far beyond apple's proprietary mindset.
Anyone who's been driving since 2005, should totally appreciate this doc. Why? You were most likely using a physical map to navigate someplace more than 25 miles away. Or, you pulled over every few miles at a gas station to ask someone!
I did delivery pre-GPS. I was taught how streets & addresses work. It’s been amazingly useful throughout the years and in my opinion should be taught in basic curriculum like how to read a clock or balancing a checkbook. I still use GPS every now and then but my knowledge of how the roads work in general augments its usefulness even more.
@@lyhthegreat sure it does. You can literally save the maps of your destination beforehand, when your signal is good (and download speeds as well) you get the location and the app calculates how quickly you'll probably go (including speed limits on "no signal roads"), and judge arrival time. It' kind of scary, actually.
Also....the GPS used on Google maps is controlled by the Air Force from a few military bases in Colorado. These Air Force bases are now part of the Space Force. I visited Peterson and Schriever just before the covid shutdowns. I'm stationed at FE Warren.
One time, over 5 years ago, there was a time my dad put us on a road that he thought was supposed to take us to a town closer to our home. However, it actually took us to the northern part of my state well over an hour away, nowhere close to home. Ironically, I knew we were going the wrong way pretty quickly since Google has the offline basic map even when you have no cell signal. I decided to say nothing though because I love rides. I am being serious.
Apple’s main focus has always been the US market, and that has always been their down side to exponential growth beyond what they have seen. Though now they are making effort to defuse that focus, they have to do a better job.
I remember using google maps for the first time around 2006. It was clunky but functional. Fast Forward to 2014 and I was able to drop myself back into the street I grew up back in the Philippines and see how much it changed since I left. It also gave birth to one of my favourite online games, Geoguesser!
I remember when I was introduced to Google Maps through the original iPhone and iPhone OS 1.1.3! More specifically, I had a first generation iPod touch as the iPhone wasn't available here at the time and I was a kid who was still learning to use a mobile phone with my Nokia 1112 feature phone. It was cool for me to have a map in the palm of my hand that I could pan around, which was something I couldn't get on my HP iPAQ that was stuck on Windows Mobile 2003 SE. When Apple introduced Apple Maps in iOS 6 and I switched to the official Google Maps app, I had to take some time to get accustomed to navigating it using Google's official UI design instead of Apple's UI. By the time I switched from iOS 7 to Android 4.4, marking the beginning of my use of Android full-time, I was able to seamlessly continue with its preloaded Maps app (preloaded as part of GMS). Today, I use Google Maps not only to get directions, but also get arrival estimates, bus routes, bookmark locations of cool places I want to revisit, as well as use Street View and bookmark locations of old buildings that I use as inspiration for some of my projects.
I remember one time before Google Maps was a phone app, I used it to navigate from my work location to a small town I never had been before to pick up a friend who was in a movie shoot. It was dense thick fog (visibility was about 20 ft), and it got dark early, and I had to print out each leg of the route on paper. I used the turn by turn directions to reset my trip odometer between every leg of the trip through the thick fog to tell me when I was about to come up to a country road intersection. This went on for an hour. Amazingly, I made the trip without getting lost, and the legs of the map were dead on accurate in terms of the distance. From that day forward, Google Maps became my goto for navigation. The only other map application I maintain on my phone is HERE We Go, as it proved its worth during a severe rainstorm, and some mobile towers went offline along the train line, and there was a real possibility of having to get off the train at a station I've never been at. The HERE app allows you to store the map of an entire region and just operate from the phone's GPS without the need of mobile data. Google Maps did not have that ability at the time. I think HERE We Go is a great hedge for those emergency situations where mobile data become unusable, or even travelling in other countries.
Back in the 90s as a poor student I could only dream of getting a gps sat nav system for the car. Was only with my first smartphone in 2012 that I could finally get such a feature in a car.
@@Jenacide when I first saw this in the early to mid 90s they were about $1000 in Australia and they weren’t portable, you had to install them in dash.
Does anyone know how I can turn off the "latest in the area" feature? As soon as you open the app, it starts to load current information about the area in focus.
COVID thought it won by restricting my travel. But little does it know I've traveled to Egypt, Indonesia, Israel and Brazil in just the past few months. Via Google Maps street view.
They forgot to mention that everytime we answered a "Not a robot" recaptcha we help google train it's AI to recognize more and more signs so that google maps could be more accurate...
I love using street view for looking at houses where my family grew up. However, I wish some roads were updated regularly. Some views are from 2007 and very low quality.
Garmin made it ridiculously expensive to upgrade just the software map. Other GPS systems like TomTom as well. Google Maps came free with cell phones and updates constantly for free. A lot of commenters have already forgotten how GPS map systems were a thing. It wasn't always Google Maps that dominated, and its amazing how quickly people forgot that.
One of the key problem I faced with Google Map is that the map doesnt orientate properly and it keeps rotating all over the place as I used. Paper map is easier to use in that sense. I use it for walking
U just don't know how to use it. You can click the compass and it will reset the orientation. You think a billion dollar company would noy think about that problem long long ago?
I’m so grateful for Google maps. I had no idea what to do before this application was created. If only someone had of thought of the idea of printing this type of information on a foldable sheet of paper. I guess we’ll never know.
When I’m bored I just play around with google street view & look at different cities
Same
I like looking at places I could visit one day.
I like to look for drunk people.
Haha same!
@@scifi_shop l
Something I always admired about my father was his ability to navigate the area without a smartphone. He worked an hour away from where we lived and it seemed no matter where I wanted to go, he knew the way. Then you look at me and I use GPS everywhere I go. Even routes I know, just in case they’re delays and/or shorter routes I don’t know about.
even teen adult now don't know how to use cash / coins anymore. they use cards or phones. Embarrasing but time moves on.
I remember printing out map quest directions. So glad that is over. On the other hand I don't know how to get around without it now.
I remember this vividly as a kid. My parents trying to navigate using mapquest directions and one missed turn by dad can cause an explosive argument in the car. Not fun.
I remember that too. I think I used mapquest last time was probably in 2007 or 08. Didn’t have my smartphone then 😊
I think I used yahoo maps but still had a sort of old Thomas guide purchased by parents as backup
" I don't know how to get around without it now." - i feel like using google maps so much has actually made me learn how to use maps in general. Well, not just google maps, but cycling a lot - I have a more intuitive sense of what a maps "means" when it shows something.
@@simemsayss4395 The irony is, what processing power?
One of the interesting features not mentioned here is how Google allows their subscribers to become local guides in putting in their input and local know-how into the Maps. The use of local guides allows Maps to have not only detailed street views but also a unique perspective into how a street point (i.e. shopping mall, small businesses, tourist attractions) looks like with photos and short video clips of these places.
Yeah the pictures help out a lot to know what it looks like and the reviews help out on things i need to know before going to that place
The problem with that is that if you give a business a negative review they can make Google remove your review. I have reviewed over a hundred businesses in three states and about 5% are negative and of those more than half are deleted. I don't lie and I don't use inappropriate language nor do I say anything that I know of that is against Google's policies. But it seems that instead of responding, businesses can simply contact Google and tell them to delete a negative review. What's the point of reviewing if you can't tell the truth. Here is an example, a business in Clearwater Florida has a manager that bans mask wearing in his store. He kicked me out and threatened to call the police because I had a mask on and he said only robbers wear masks. That when he pointed to a sign on the door that read "NO MASKS ALLOWED!" So I changed my previous review to one star and included the above information. A month later my review evaporated. So I reposed it and it happened again. Then I looked carefully and noticed other negative reviews had also disappeared. This is true for several businesses in my city and not just my negative reviews disappear. So you cannot trust any review given by local guides which I used to be one but no more. There is no point.
i love Google Maps, discovered so many places because of it
CNBC: "The Rise Of Google Maps"
Apple Maps: am i a joke to you?
Everyone: yes
Apple Maps: oh ok :'(
@@darekklich4000 apple map sucks
yes i also did
Same
@@xxbleedzxx2386 nah
As a child of the 90s. I remember Dad on the wheel while Mum was the navigator with the mapbook and self proclaimed driving expert.
nostalgia, also dad asking someone, and then that guy just says go there and left and there and there, and then dad gets mad like wtf is he saying lol
I google maps more than actual google. If I need the number to a business I find it easier in google maps.
Then you’re using google wrong bud
@@josiekailee2081 yeah I know that number cus I invested 1bitcoin last 2 month and now I have about 7bitcoin which is really amazing!!! Kudos to her..... You can also check her on Facebook @Mcmoore sofe Mandy but she replies only to trading and she is really nice
Me too! I always find business websites, numbers on Maps, faster than Google.. LOL
I just zoom to the Business i want to find.
That bring me to the right business directly.
I
ABC, easy as 123.
I remember when Google Earth came up, it was a mindblowing experience that changed my perception of how things are. Now, I don't go anywhere new without Google maps!
Soo true.
Yeah but they copied someone
@@bruh-nc3hk Who did they copy?
TBT to when apple maps was actually just google maps
😝
-And worked flawlessly.
tbt?!?
@@fai8t i also googled its #ThrowbackThursday (On Wednesday hahah😝)
Edit: Maybe Its Thursday in your Country!!
@@fai8t TBT - Truth Be Told
Google maps is the main reason I even bought a smart phone - so much time savings from real time traffic
Don't even need a phone now since everything comes standard in many cars.
That's a lot of other things smart phone can do
@@blackworldtraveler3711 nah you need phone to connect to car infotainment system, talking about Apple, android auto
@@montyi8
I only fill my tank twice a year so not in my car that much.
You must be old, biged
I remember my father read the map, memorize it, and just drive. He describes which road I should take to reach the place we need to.
Its 2020 bro, I got a GPS on my lawnmower.
@@aquafishsoup so you can drive it into a lake?
I've actually done that with Google Maps. There have been times when it made sense to just read the map, get an idea where I'm going, and then go from there without having to go by the GPS step by step.
I sometimes purposely still memorize the route after seeing Google map's suggested route just to work out my memory skills.
Just have to remember the turns, thats all.
CNBC Mini documentaries are the Best! I'm addicted to these! 😂😂
Chick fil a, dominos, car dealerships, etc.
I hope to god there's no ads like TH-cam in google maps !
That's coming soon
every free product need ad to save google
I think unskippable full screen ads would definitely away a lot of people. Couple be an Apple Maps resonance?
There are ads, you just don't realize they're ads. Search Maps for a local mom and pop diner, then search for the closest Dennys or IHOP. Chances are the information for the Dennys or IHOP is more filled out and probably ranks higher in search. Someone paid Google for those rankings so you would choose to go to Dennys instead.
hmm if an ad pops out every time i finish my from-to location then im okay with that
CNBC: "The Rise Of Google Maps"
Apple Maps: am i a joke to you?
Everyone: yes
Apple Maps: oh ok :'(
Apple maps sux a big fat one.
@Kaustav Chatterjee yes it is
I actually prefer Apple Maps
Lol yes. I like Apple Maps only because it links with my Apple Watch vibrating when to turn left or right. Nice since sometimes I just doze off cruising. If google maps did that would be excellent.
🤣👍
google maps is really good in my country. Apple maps isn't good at all.
Apple Maps is much better now after iOS 13 and 14. It used to be bad when it first came out in 2012
@@stunnasaad I agree, but still have Google Maps installed incase if I need it.
Google maps is far more superior than Apple maps here in India. Like a million times.
@@himanshuranjan7200 oh yea the country depends
yeah it depends the country, for example here in Sweden and Denmark google maps doesn't work very good, I only use it in case that im biking (still a pain in the ass to use it)
CNBC always on the cutting edge. In the next episode they’ll walk you through setting up a mySpace page
Security issues. When you follow Google Maps, Google follows you. If GPS alone tracked the people that use it, people would be outraged, accuse the US military of spying. Google Maps has become nearly as popular without the public or governments really scrutinizing what information gets collected. Yes, this seems late, but the real story is that people freely share their location all the time. Notice this is NOT "how to use Google Maps", its about how widely used it's become in a very short time.
@@squirlmy whatever you are crying about isn't true until you get the proofs. Stop being a jerk and provide proof DH.
Can anyone just respect the fact that google maps satellite view looks waaaaay better then Apple mapses
I'd like to respect the fact that Apple's Lookaround (street view) is waaaaaay better than Google's
@@samferr16 yeah in some scenarios apple is actually better but overall google has the better package, its personal preference after all.
@@samferr16 lmao it's just some countries I believe but if you street view to any other countries apple maps sucks
Actually the best one was Bing Map's "Bird's View" feature. But unfortunately, it has disappeared.
So who is the inventor, Google or Apple?. This is best invention of this century so far.
I remember when I was in 8th grade in 2008 being completely stunned when we discovered Google Maps street view. Lol 😂 12 years later, Apple still doesn’t hold a candle to google maps.
Google maps is amazing. Mapquest as a "consumer painpoint" is an understatement!
This is a reasonably good overview of the mapping industry over the past 10 years. Google Maps certainly has the best POI data and mobile device user base numbers, and these combined with continuous indoor/outdoor Positioning data will deliver enormous value to Google and its users for many years, especially when AR becomes mainstream.
😂 When Apple maps looked like the melted watches Salvador Dali painting.
TBT to when apple maps was actually just google maps
Apple maps is more accurate than Google maps in my country
> 5:28
To be fair there’s a pretty long list of equally bad slip ups by Google. Whole islands and large mountains mysteriously disappearing, people driving into lakes while using their turn by turn, errantly marking people’s driveways as park entrances etc… 🤣
At least Apple maps actually does its job. Google maps takes about 15 mins to even figure out where I am, suggests completely inane routes that take longer for no reason at all, and freezes any time I switch to another app for a moment. There is not a single update in the last 10 years that hasn't made google maps more buggy and more broken.
12:56 Funny how Google Earth is a competitor to Google Maps
I remember my parents would use MapQuest. Traveled around with printed directions. Ohh how the times have changed.
Then there was the brief rule of GPS devices from Garmin, TomTom etc
I remember going to AAA and getting a triptik to navigate on vacation. Damn, I'm old.
@@JulezWinnfield A who now? Lol
One argument in the car and you've lost three turns lmfao
B4 dat u had 2 buy at a grocery store but it was pain cuz it would be like 60 different types so u had 2 unfold it fold it ect. Til u found da 1 u need
I remember having to print out the directions lol
I remember having a glove box stuffed with maps and a pile of street atlases under my seat. I'm glad I never threw them away since Google maps just became worthless this week with the elimination of functionality in the measuring tool.
Google Maps the world in many different waze (pun intended)
I just use Waze for cops🤣 I don’t use it to know where I am
Nice joke! I liked the part where you mentioned Waze
Whats waze
@@jadoo782002able Navigation app that was bought by Google. It's mainly focused on driving instead of all types of navigation.
@@jadoo782002able literally the best maps app okay so basically say we live in the same area say all of us do we’d all have little icons when using Waze so you know if someone’s went down a road to see a cop or if no ones been down it and you need to watch out it’s great because you instantly can report a cop where you pass and tell them it’s like hidden or so and it just is a great community all looking out for each other
Never forget the first time I saw the video/photos of streets on Google. My jaw dropped. Just amazing. Now I take it for granted.
Before Google Map we used Mapquest and before that a real map.
Before google maps I didn’t exist🙂
mapquest was the best
@@elpepe2136mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Awesome coverage of Google maps - history and the future! Love some of the new features they are adding!
As an essential truck driver. I use and absolutely love Google maps!
fellow driver and it is a great tool to help get the job done. refreshing the route informs us of delays that may be possible to avoid. 🙌
@@jamescook3675 hopefully you two won't be that truck driver that attempts to take a route not suitable for trucks and get your trailer hung up on an upgrade, making people who live directly behind you to do a 10 mile detour... those guys..😖
@@pickolascage1283 the type of drivers you're talking about are the inexperienced ones with no wisdom of knowledge on what to look for when traveling. Seasoned professionals drivers know what to for so you won't be in a jam 10 miles back.
Remember the old days when you were losing yourself in a city and you had to ask ACTUAL PEOPLE to help you? It had its magic.
"Rise of google maps"
It's been raised since 2010 lol
Uh.. I still have to ask people despite already using Google Maps. We have so many alleys in my town that don’t get mapped properly in google. I’ve also had bad experiences of Google Maps led me to go through some strange roads. So, yeah, it’s always safe just to ask people.
I still do this actually, when my phone died
Hell no. I hated getting lost. I talk to the people more efficiently when I’m not lost!
Hey bro it works all but can a paper map give me every street update every home because here's the thing paper maps from 2005 do not have my road over here they do not exist this entire section of my land of my entire neighborhood does not exist on paper maps it's all farmland
I just crossed 1 mn views of my photo in google map and they congratulate me saying your a professional photographers
lol nice
You left your privacy out of the equation when you bought your very first smart phone.
You're being tracked.
Uh, Google Maps has been gigantic for years...
....because we always get lost
GPS. Many more people used GPS, but it's expensive to buy, expensive to upgrade. Stupid Garmin made it ridiculously expensive to upgrade just the software map. Google Maps came free with cell phones and updates constantly for free.
I can't believe you didn't even mention real time traffic data off the major highways which was the main reason I started using Google Maps about 10-15 years ago. For the time, it was ingenious how they used everyone's location data to determine direction and speeds to put together that information.
Looking forward to seeing more walking/hiking trails and offroad areas being covered by Street View. Some of the areas local to me have been done already but not the bigger, more popular areas. I would be happy to carry their back pack while walking some of the trails.
Google maps are like 10 years behind on the images around my home
Upper Michigan
Are you in Ulan Bator?
@@pooljunki1 I think Google will calculate ROI of all updates
i'm in the suburbs and on main roads its a year or 2 old, but residential streets are between 4-7 years old.
@Jj return of investment
"Rise of google maps"
It's been raised since 2010 lol
And this video explains all that.........
it should be "How google maps rised since 2010"
@Dandy Honestly I mean thats just splitting hairs. The title perfectly explains what its about. If I watched a video about "the rise of genghis khan" I'd understand that it'd be the backstory behind genghis khan and his empire. I'm sure there are countless relevant examples of this, and if you don't understand my point let me know and I'll easily find one for you.
The proper title should be "The dominance of google maps"
Its hilarious to see how AOL fall so hard. They had a lead on a lot, smh they should be ashamed of themselves
Lol I remember when my parents had one of those big gps devices that you put in the car. Kind of amazing to see how far technology has advanced.
All privacy issues aside, there's no denying what Google has been able to accomplish with technology is very impressive.
my mom still uses them
@@aureliotomasturbao All because of data. We could go farther if we weren't so regulated. That's where ethics come in.
13:01 The moment where Google Earth is a competitor to Google..
Other than navigation, I’m using Google maps for virtual vacation:’))
Other than navigation, I'm using google maps to see how life would be different if I lived in the U.S instead of a sh*t-hole 3rd world country in the middle east that have no civil rights.
@@jammer1993 which country do you live in?
@@darkecho4584 Egypt
@@jammer1993 Same I do 😄 I live in Argentina. Sometimes I see different parts of the USA and Europe to see what is the lifestyle of first world countries. Google Maps is a really useful tool 🌎
@@GUSTA99X lucky you my brother live in Haiti where civil unrest all of the time I'm pretty sure am use to massacres and people flying and dead bodies all over the street so.
Google Maps was my best friend when I went to Tokyo last year and it was a breeze. And some of you might know that the Tokyo subway station is one of the most complicated subway stations in the world.
Lol! It was my best friend too when I travelled to NYC for the first time. It helped me out when I took the wrong train and became lost in the middle of Brooklyn! 🤣
I hate how quickly my phone battery depreciates when I use Google maps.
Your batteries financial value is affected by its usage?
@@JulezWinnfield lol
@@JulezWinnfield You could argue that the excessive battery drain caused by google maps, will cause the battery to chemically age faster, reducing it’s effective capacity. Which ultimately reduces the phone’s resale value. So yes the financial value of the battery is affected by google maps. :)
We need dark mode app wide in Google maps asap. A dark mode is kind of their when navigation is on, and if the sun has set in your location. And if you have an oled display, save your battery with black color schemed dark mode.
Really? I would check that phone instead to see what the issue is.
13:20 - where is it? Havasupai?
"Thanks google"
-Elon Musk
Thanks Google for God.
Thank you Wikipedia.
Thank you tech gods. Now I won't be lost like the dumb little puppy I am. I pray to google every night for my data being collected to be safe from harm. 🙏🙏
@@young7931 lol
👍
As someone who uses Google Maps everytime I move around, a world without it would be much much more difficult!
Even though one may know the route to their workplace, using Google Maps daily to get there might just save you from getting stuck in a jam that you wouldn't know about otherwise.
Even better than the GPS directions is the amazing API, which allows websites and app devs access to those same capabilities, accelerating growth and adoption far beyond apple's proprietary mindset.
The fact that you didn't leave out arguing with spouses makes this journalism absolutely credible.
Anyone who's been driving since 2005, should totally appreciate this doc.
Why? You were most likely using a physical map to navigate someplace more than 25 miles away.
Or, you pulled over every few miles at a gas station to ask someone!
I did delivery pre-GPS. I was taught how streets & addresses work. It’s been amazingly useful throughout the years and in my opinion should be taught in basic curriculum like how to read a clock or balancing a checkbook.
I still use GPS every now and then but my knowledge of how the roads work in general augments its usefulness even more.
0:23 ?
It was like 15 years back... It's not that hard to imagine
@@matematikbilgini7288 what?
@@tammewar26 That's bot, it just spamming everywhere on this comment. Just report it.
If only Google Maps existed in the 80s, Mark Thacther wouldn't have been lost.
google maps don't really work if you're in remote places with no signal like forests.
@@lyhthegreat sure it does. You can literally save the maps of your destination beforehand, when your signal is good (and download speeds as well) you get the location and the app calculates how quickly you'll probably go (including speed limits on "no signal roads"), and judge arrival time. It' kind of scary, actually.
Conveniently left out the fact that Keyhole (Google Earth) was a CIA company, completely funded by In-Q-Tel ;)
I was going to comment the same.
Still cia.
In 2013 it was revealed that Backdoors are still open.
Same with fb.....previous name.was Lifelog.
Culinary Institute or America?
You can't be surprised, though. The government wants to track everyone.
Gigi Duru Goog Maps was a diff startup that got hijacked by FrooGle.
Also....the GPS used on Google maps is controlled by the Air Force from a few military bases in Colorado.
These Air Force bases are now part of the Space Force.
I visited Peterson and Schriever just before the covid shutdowns.
I'm stationed at FE Warren.
One time, over 5 years ago, there was a time my dad put us on a road that he thought was supposed to take us to a town closer to our home. However, it actually took us to the northern part of my state well over an hour away, nowhere close to home. Ironically, I knew we were going the wrong way pretty quickly since Google has the offline basic map even when you have no cell signal. I decided to say nothing though because I love rides. I am being serious.
Apple’s main focus has always been the US market, and that has always been their down side to exponential growth beyond what they have seen. Though now they are making effort to defuse that focus, they have to do a better job.
Imagine a day where Google Earth successfully makes the whole world in 3D through satellite images.
Navigation of the future.
Rogue engineer, the scapegoat of the tech world lol
I remember using google maps for the first time around 2006. It was clunky but functional. Fast Forward to 2014 and I was able to drop myself back into the street I grew up back in the Philippines and see how much it changed since I left. It also gave birth to one of my favourite online games, Geoguesser!
Google maps and Waze are amazing tbh
Gave apple maps a chance a few times but there's just no comparison
Great work cnbc. I always loved these documentaries.
"A very detailed map" Me: *laughs in Open Street Map*
Google maps has literally changed my life and I use it everyday to this day.
Musician: We're having a world tour!
The world tour: 2:03
🤣🤣🤣
I remember when I was introduced to Google Maps through the original iPhone and iPhone OS 1.1.3! More specifically, I had a first generation iPod touch as the iPhone wasn't available here at the time and I was a kid who was still learning to use a mobile phone with my Nokia 1112 feature phone. It was cool for me to have a map in the palm of my hand that I could pan around, which was something I couldn't get on my HP iPAQ that was stuck on Windows Mobile 2003 SE. When Apple introduced Apple Maps in iOS 6 and I switched to the official Google Maps app, I had to take some time to get accustomed to navigating it using Google's official UI design instead of Apple's UI. By the time I switched from iOS 7 to Android 4.4, marking the beginning of my use of Android full-time, I was able to seamlessly continue with its preloaded Maps app (preloaded as part of GMS). Today, I use Google Maps not only to get directions, but also get arrival estimates, bus routes, bookmark locations of cool places I want to revisit, as well as use Street View and bookmark locations of old buildings that I use as inspiration for some of my projects.
Who remembers A to Z's? So glad I never have to use those again.
I really enjoy these videos you guys post.
Use Waze as testing ground: brilliant!
I remember one time before Google Maps was a phone app, I used it to navigate from my work location to a small town I never had been before to pick up a friend who was in a movie shoot. It was dense thick fog (visibility was about 20 ft), and it got dark early, and I had to print out each leg of the route on paper. I used the turn by turn directions to reset my trip odometer between every leg of the trip through the thick fog to tell me when I was about to come up to a country road intersection. This went on for an hour. Amazingly, I made the trip without getting lost, and the legs of the map were dead on accurate in terms of the distance. From that day forward, Google Maps became my goto for navigation.
The only other map application I maintain on my phone is HERE We Go, as it proved its worth during a severe rainstorm, and some mobile towers went offline along the train line, and there was a real possibility of having to get off the train at a station I've never been at. The HERE app allows you to store the map of an entire region and just operate from the phone's GPS without the need of mobile data. Google Maps did not have that ability at the time. I think HERE We Go is a great hedge for those emergency situations where mobile data become unusable, or even travelling in other countries.
Back in the 90s as a poor student I could only dream of getting a gps sat nav system for the car. Was only with my first smartphone in 2012 that I could finally get such a feature in a car.
noice
I remember them being pretty cheap.
@@Jenacide when I first saw this in the early to mid 90s they were about $1000 in Australia and they weren’t portable, you had to install them in dash.
Wow cnbc with intriguing content for people under the age of 60?! Way to finally adapt guys!
Imagine one day you wake up to the following nightmare: *"Google will discontinue Google Maps on XX/XX/XXX"*
🤣 🤣 🤣
That happened 4 years ago. "
This page can't load Google Maps correctly. For development purpose only."
They did discontinue their stock portfolios- that was a big loss to me. I now use Yahoo's but it's not as good.
There are alternatives.
@@Prodigious1One Free alternatives?
@@nakayle yes, like Map Quest, Bing maps, and Yahoo maps.
Google Maps is such a blessing for introvert.
google maps has never let me down whenever i need accurate and quick paths to my destination :)
It lets me down about 90% of the time.
Still remember when I used MapQuest and print out the navigation. LOL
Who else just randomly looks at your own house on Google maps Satellite view?
I can see my self in Steet View
I can see my house in Google map lol
Does anybody know why Google Maps is missing from the Moldovan App strore? Thanks
People who disliked still use paper maps
Or they just think google is evil.
I use paper maps i don't need to be tracked.
Does anyone know how I can turn off the "latest in the area" feature?
As soon as you open the app, it starts to load current information about the area in focus.
As a commuter I can attest that I will never use anything but Waze to navigate traffic
Most of the features of Waze have been in Google Maps for years...
@Tom yes I know. I was just telling the OP that the features of Waze have been carried over to Google Maps for years now lol
0:25 "Head west and turn left" *turns right*
It's the instruction after they turn right. You can see there's another intersection in the middle of the white arrow
1:09 let's just pretend we didn't see the Plane
Google Maps is the ultimate road map that always makes updates. Remember when Apple Maps first came out it reminded me what Google Maps we're in 2005.
COVID thought it won by restricting my travel. But little does it know I've traveled to Egypt, Indonesia, Israel and Brazil in just the past few months. Via Google Maps street view.
I have been using Google Maps for years and don't have any complaints against the app and will continue to use it when traveling.
iPhones aren't even a consideration for me because you can't make Google the default maps app
now you can
Lol u can
@@avinchak08 So if I say "Siri, give me directions to work" it will open Google Maps and not Apple Maps?
I love Google Maps, because I love mapping and cartography, and it's the career field I have chosen for myself.
They forgot to mention that everytime we answered a "Not a robot" recaptcha we help google train it's AI to recognize more and more signs so that google maps could be more accurate...
if it's training that than how does it know if you got the question right
@@CringePoop crowdsourcing, there is accuracy in numbers.
CNBC makes pretty high quality videos
Imagine smart glasses, where you can literally see the blue line on the road!
Google maps has it in the camera but it warns you not to stare at your phone too much
I love using street view for looking at houses where my family grew up.
However, I wish some roads were updated regularly. Some views are from 2007 and very low quality.
Let's all never forget the GPS pioneers of the X-Y Generation: Garmin, Magellan, and Nextar.
Garmin made it ridiculously expensive to upgrade just the software map. Other GPS systems like TomTom as well. Google Maps came free with cell phones and updates constantly for free. A lot of commenters have already forgotten how GPS map systems were a thing. It wasn't always Google Maps that dominated, and its amazing how quickly people forgot that.
"Google Earth" as a Google competitor? Yeah right. 😂
One of the key problem I faced with Google Map is that the map doesnt orientate properly and it keeps rotating all over the place as I used. Paper map is easier to use in that sense. I use it for walking
U just don't know how to use it.
You can click the compass and it will reset the orientation. You think a billion dollar company would noy think about that problem long long ago?
@@mr.emsrubin830 I don't know, it just didn't orientate well.
@@mr.emsrubin830 In walking mode, the map does rotate around weirdly.
I’m so grateful for Google maps.
I had no idea what to do before this application was created.
If only someone had of thought of the idea of printing this type of information on a foldable sheet of paper.
I guess we’ll never know.
Google maps is essential I can't go no where without it
Love Google Maps!
To explore cities better (online) you can use the Wander app with an oculus headset. It’s really fun to do.
I highly doubt apple maps is even considered competition
Gmail,google maps,TH-cam can’t live without them