how google maps knows even the smallest pathways?

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I know satellites exist and they could easily find out roads, but how they find pathways in forest and other small paths?

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Same reason why those paths are on any other map. Somebody put them there. Usually someone with local knowledge digitizes them and these local maps are aggregated into larger ones and eventually they might end up being used by Google or other large service providers.

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