Twelve years ago, a weekend journey was likely to involve typing a postcode into Multimap, printing out step-by-step instructions and then enduring amateur navigation from your partner in the passenger seat.
A decade on, digital maps and the inexorable rise of the smartphone have radically changed how we locate, navigate and plan our journeys. Mobiles computers act as our guides for everything from driving holidays to nipping to the shops.
Apps such as Google Maps have become the de facto interface between the physical and the digital world, meaning people need never be lost again – even if they don’t have a sense of direction.
Today Google Map Has Completed It’s 12 Year And This is the day, It was first unleashed To The World in 2005.