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What Makes Google’s Maps So Good - NY Times (Pogue)

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David Pogue writes:

What I realized is that mapping the world is a staggering, gigantic, vast, inconceivably huge and ambitious project. It represents years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/what-makes-googles-maps-so-good/

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