Heck, you don’t even know his name. Shouldn’t we at least go on a second date first? Meet Pegman. He was first introduced in 2008 — a full year after Street View was born — as a way for us to expand ...

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You might not think of him very often, but you know the Google Maps pegman quite well. Every time you zoom down into a new, strange locale, he’s there, pointing the way. But where did he come from?