For the history of Google Maps, Earth, and Street View, check out "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality". Written by one of the founders of Keyhole (the company that built what became Google Earth), the book is mostly about the founding of Keyhole and gathering map data from many sources, but also talks about Google's acquisition of Where 2 Technologies (the company that built what became Google Maps).