{"id":17671,"date":"2025-02-08T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/google-maps-changed-the-way-we-get-around-it-all-began-in-a-spare-bedroom-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:37:25","slug":"google-maps-changed-the-way-we-get-around-it-all-began-in-a-spare-bedroom-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/google-maps-changed-the-way-we-get-around-it-all-began-in-a-spare-bedroom-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 \u2013 and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world\u2019s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google Maps, has buried himself in a big black hole of anonymity. But not because of any shame or regret \u2013 it\u2019s just that he isn\u2019t one to blow his own trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tend to be a very private person,\u201d Ma says in a rare interview. \u201cI find the limelight uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/09\/google-maps-turns-20-anniversary-feature\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/393a4a733bc6144682ba2e7f3f4dd2a42c625585\/0_114_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b90c08d25120bb87e4bde9c79779686a\" title=\"Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney\" \/>This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 \u2013 and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world\u2019s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google Maps, has buried himself in a big black hole of anonymity. But not because of any shame or regret \u2013 it\u2019s just that he isn\u2019t one to blow his own trumpet.<br \/>\n\u201cI tend to be a very private person,\u201d Ma says in a rare interview. \u201cI find the limelight uncomfortable.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 \u2013 and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world\u2019s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/google-maps-changed-the-way-we-get-around-it-all-began-in-a-spare-bedroom-in-sydney\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}