Google Maps

For ages, maps have been integral to our daily lives. From our cave-painting days, we have been creating and using maps to define, explain, and navigate. Businesses, especially operation and transportation-intensive ones, are making great use of maps to leverage their operations, facilitating strategy, establish structured communication, and optimize resources better. Due to rising complexity, and to stay ahead of competitions, maps have been gaining notice lately across industries. The upcoming disruptions focus mainly on the integration of Maps with IoT and Machine Learnings.

The transition to digital maps from print maps has observed lightning-fast development. The stepping stone for maps getting digitized was introduced in 1993 by Xerox. In 1995, MapGuide was introduced by Argus Technologies which was followed by MapQuest in 1996 who presented the first ever online Address Matching & Routing service. Almost after a decade, with the introduction of Google Maps, digitization of paper maps took a different dimension altogether. Thanks to Web Mapping or Web GIS (Geographical Information Systems), it’s been quite a progress from the restricted and costly use of hardware.