Monday, 12 February 2018

You can now watch Snap Maps on the web

Snap’s second major push to make its content available outside of its app comes today in the form of Snap Maps. These location-based stories can now be embedded online, like I did below with the current story of Times Square in New York. Good morning!

Snap Maps debuted over the summer as a way to track your friends. The app version populates with your friends’ Bitmoji, along with public stories from around the world. It initially was seen as a potential privacy risk when people didn’t realize how exact the coordinates of their Bitmoji could be; it can get down to the corner of the street you’re on.

For the public, online version of the map, Snap has removed usernames. Still, I wonder if people are consciously thinking about the whole...

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