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As of 2020, Google Maps was being used by over one billion people every month around the world. [1] Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen in Australia at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application.
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...
Darwin (Larrakia: Garramilla) [ 8 ][better source needed] is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. [ 1 ] It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End 's regional centre ...
Internet TLD. .au. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [18] It is the largest country by area in Oceania and the sixth-largest country in the world.
Wittenoom is a former town and a declared contaminated site, 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth, in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. [3][4] The declared contaminated site comprises 50,000 hectares (120,000 acres), making it the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere. [5][6] The area ...
Durack. Exmouth (/ ˈɛksmaʊθ / EX-mowth[a]) is a town on the tip of the North West Cape and on Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia, 1,124 kilometres (698 mi) north of the state capital Perth and 2,060 kilometres (1,280 mi) southwest of Darwin. [3][4] The town was established in 1967 to support the nearby United States Naval Communication ...
Tasmania from space. Tasmania (/ tæzˈmeɪniə /; palawa kani: lutruwita[14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the ...