Adding an AI tool to Google Earth shook our trust in maps that has been centuries in the making
Stuff | 08.08.2026 20:00
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 industrialisation at home and colonisation overseas, they didn’t always get it right.
