Google Maps
Google's web mapping service (launched 2005)
Episodes
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#5708: The Islands Between Two OceansFifteen obscure sub-Antarctic islands, the governments that run them, and the penguin who holds a noble title. -
#5394: Why Waze Sends You Into a Jerusalem AlleyA listener's complaint about Waze turns into a tour of how routing apps actually work — graphs, shortcuts, and a map that's always slightly wrong. -
#5367: Circling the ER: Driving When You Can't StopWhat do you do when the destination has no parking and a sick passenger in the seat? A holding pattern for city streets. -
#5837: Atlas Obscura: 33,000 Hidden Places and a Boardroom CoupA rotating circle of plants in Argentina, a boiling river 400 miles from any volcano, and the founders who got voted off the board. -
#5710: Tristan da Cunha: Life on the World's Most Remote Island222 people, one village, and a dialect that conjugates like a single person — what life is actually like on the world's most remote inhabited island. -
#5512: The Passenger Seat Never Got an Instrument PanelDedicated front-passenger screens exist across luxury cars — but they're built for TikTok, not for the co-pilot job. Here's why. -
#5383: Android's Open Core, Closed GovernanceAndroid's code is open, but its roadmap isn't. What happens when Google changes the core and developers just have to cope?