Adding an AI tool to Google Earth shook our trust in maps that has been centuries in the making

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Aug 6, 2026, 4:40 pm269 ptsTop
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe's cartographers traded on their reputation for accuracy and detail at a time of huge societal change. But as demand grew for increasingly detailed maps of the world to support industrialization at home and colonization overseas, they didn't always get it right.

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