Download the new Switched app for your iPhone

Skip to Content

Free Switched iPhone app - try it now!
Close

Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.

Map of the world

Google Maps Street View Circa 1907

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) on Aug 16th 2007 at 1:03PM


I'm sure by now most of you have heard of or even played around with the new Google Maps Street View. If you've been reading Gadling for even a few months, you'll know that we gushed about the feature on numerous occasions. (1, 2, 3, 4)

It turns out that Google wasn't the first to develop this technology. (And no, I'm not talking about Amazon.com's A9 or whatever it was called.) Way back in 1907, before conventional road atlases were made, Rand McNally released "Photo Auto-maps" which gave drivers a visual pathway for navigation, much like the Google Maps Street View of today.

Cool! [via]


Filed under: History

Search Travel Deals

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gadling Features



Be sure to check out Episode 4 of Travel Talk TV, which features good and bad pilots, Holi, and a sofa in an aquarium!

Categories

Become our Fan on Facebook!

Gadling on Facebook

Featured Galleries (view all)

Dim Sum Dialogues: Bangkok
Frank's Final Flight
The King Tut exhibit in SF
Flea Market Finds: Brooklyn
East of Africa: Ilakaka
Amsterdam's Floating Flower Market
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo
Air France Inaugural A380

Our Writers

Grant Martin

Editor-in-chief

RSS Feed

Scott Carmichael

Executive Editor

RSS Feed

View more Writers