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National Geographic puts more than 500 historic maps on Google

07
Dec
2013

National Geographic and Google are trying to recreate the thrill of cracking open one of the magazines signature paper maps, but in the digital world. A new project puts more than 500 of National Geographics 800 historic maps online using Googles Maps Engine platform. People have collected our magazine fold-out maps for over a hundred years, and many of those maps are sequestered away in attics and garages, Frank Biasi, the director of digital development at National Geographic wrote in a Google blog post announcing the effort. Biasi added that National Geographic will also offer high resolution versions of the maps for sale and through licensing deals, where the works could end up in travel and home decor businesses. Thats on top of existing sales of paper maps, as well as digital versions sold as paid apps on Apples iOS platform.

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