Google Maps Road Trip

Google Maps Road Trip was a live-streaming documentary produced by Marc

Google Maps Road Trip
Horowitz and Peter Baldes between August 10 and August 18, 2009. The event
represented the first virtual live-streaming broadcast cross-country road trip: Produced by Marc Horowitz
using only Google Maps, the pair drove from Los Angeles to Richmond, VA.[1] Peter Baldes
They were interviewed by NPR Weekend Edition for their innovative Release date 2009
"vacation".[2] They were also mentioned in The New York Times,[3] India's The
Country United States
Economic Times,[4] The Faster Times[5] and Readymade Magazine's blog.[6]
They streamed live on ustream.tv.

Google Maps Road Trip was part of the 6th annual Conflux festival in 2009 held at New York University in the Steinhardt School
of Culture, Education, and Human Development as part of Psy-Geo-Conflux.

References
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20090821220149/http://www.googlemapsroadtrip.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/
20090821220149/http://www.googlemapsroadtrip.com/). Archived from the original (http://www.googlemapsroadtr
ip.com/) on August 21, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Taking The Great American Road Trip, Google-Style" (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11
1921898). NPR. 2009-08-16.
3. Gross, Matt (2009-09-01). "Virtual Vacations" (http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/virtual-vacation
s/). The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
4. "Forget staycation, just enjoy a virtual vacation!" (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Cetera/Forget-staycati
on-enjoy-virtual-vacation/articleshow/5004592.cms). The Economic Times. 2009-09-13.
5. "Live Video: Marc Horowitz's Google Maps Road Trip" (https://web.archive.org/web/20090814195516/http://thefa
stertimes.com/travel/2009/08/10/marc-horowitzs-google-maps-road-trip/). The Faster Times. 2009-08-10.
Archived from the original (http://thefastertimes.com/travel/2009/08/10/marc-horowitzs-google-maps-road-trip/)
on 2009-08-14.
6. "Virtual Summer Break: Two Friends Undertake Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving Home" (https://web.ar
chive.org/web/20090814073250/http://www.readymade.com/blogs/readymade/2009/08/10/virtual-summer-break-
two-friends-undertake-cross-country-road-trip-without-leaving-home/). Readymade. 2009-08-10. Archived from
the original (http://www.readymade.com/blogs/readymade/2009/08/10/virtual-summer-break-two-friends-undertak
e-cross-country-road-trip-without-leaving-home/) on 2009-08-14.

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