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How Google builds its maps

The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal gets an inside look at how Google builds its maps (and what that means for the future of everything). “If Google’s mission is to organize all the world’s information, the most important challenge โ€” far larger than indexing the web โ€” is to take the world’s physical information and make it accessible and useful.”