ctd' from "A brief history of online mapping"
In 2004 Google bought Keyhole, a company producing satellite imagery. Google Earth launched in January 2005 and immediately took off.
MapQuest was bought by AOL, making it the worlds first $1B dollar mapping company.
Though still popular, MapQuest lost it’s pool position to Google Maps which collects around 24% of all world-wide mapping traffic.
Still in 2004 all data was treamed from the mapping service to the user – until Paul Rademacher started the map mashup (he just wanted to show bay areas’ flats for-rent from craigslist.com on a simple map).
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