Forecasting the Future of Maps
16:08 minutes
Google Maps celebrated its 10-year anniversary this month. In that decade, web and mobile mapping companies have sprung up to chart the corner of every city and integrate real time transportation data into these maps. What will the maps of the future look like, and will they help us move from point A to point B more efficiently?
We also asked you how you got around before maps were on the web:
Segment Guests
Steve Coast
Steve Coast is founder of OpenStreetMap in Denver, Colorado.
Greg Miller
Greg Miller is a freelance science journalist and co-founder of WIRED‘s Map Lab blog.
Related Links
- Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape
- Digital maps’ unsung hero: how the geocoder puts us on the grid
- Smartphones and the Uncertain Future of ‘Spatial Thinking’
- Autonomous Cars Will Require a Totally New Kind of Map
- Maps That Live and Breathe With Data
- Google’s Road Map to Global Domination
Meet the Producer
About Alexa Lim
@AlexaLim22Alexa Lim was a senior producer for Science Friday. Her favorite stories involve space, sound, and strange animal discoveries.