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Maps and Earth were not in-house built but purchased.

Maps was amazing at first and then it got ruined bit by bit. But somewhere along the way it got awesome again. I think it's really good right now.

WAIT WHAT?

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Goodness how have I not known this?!

Yep, I had Earthviewer 3D installed on my PC before Google Earth was a thing.

The maps guys then pushed on to even greater heights with … Google Wave…