Immersive View for routes, Photorealistic 3D Tiles, new route customization capabilities, and reusable web components are other Google Maps improvements. Using the new Aerial View API, developers ...

In 2005, Google’s exec team (Larry, Sergey, etc) had a weekly product review meeting. We had launched Google Maps in February, and by summer, we’d integrated satellite imagery from our Keyhole ...

Apparently, back in 2005, there was what Taylor described as a "geeky holy war" occurring on the Google Maps team. Google Maps was set to include the feature that we now know as "Satellite" view ...