Making the first digital maps of India

A behind the scenes look at how Google Map's drawing tools went from marking picnic spots in Golden Gate park to creating the first digital maps of India.

I wanted to give you a bit more insight into the story behind Google’s My Maps and how those simple drawing tools were used to create the first digital maps of India.

In the mid-2000s, Google’s vision was to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Sergei and Larry cared about this so much that they were scanni…