How a Flemish cartographer and PNGs made web maps a part of our everyday lives

Or a brief history of web maps

When was the last time you were lost? Really think about it.

Unless you didn’t have a phone or yours ran out of power, you likely had directions telling you where to go, or you ended up watching a blue dot to tell you exactly where you are.

That concept, knowing your exact location at any given time, was a far off idea only 15 years ago. Yet in the years since, the world of mapping, location, and…