google maps

Initial Idea

2003

Early 2003 the Rasmussen brothers co-founded a mapping related startup which they named expedition.

Google Buys the Technology

2004

Google found out about the technologies and the rasmussen brothers led the team that launched the application in 2005 and bought the technology for a billion dollars.

The Application Going Live

2005

Google Maps went live in 2005. Today, there are more than 1 billion monthly active users of Google Maps, and you can access listings for more than 150 million businesses and places in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide.