Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

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Google is rolling out some new Maps features to its iOS and Android apps for the summer, including new location sharing options, cycling directions enhancements, and photorealistic aerial views of ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things — wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning ...

If you want a bird's-eye view of a house you like, your office building or a local landmark, you can do this easily using Google Maps or Google Earth. The 3D option, combined with satellite ...

Have you ever felt like you’re missing out on a secret shortcut in Google Maps—some hidden gem that could make navigating unknown places less stressful, and ...

Waze and Apple Maps are two fantastic apps that make it easier, safer, and more convenient to find a destination and drive to it, but Google Maps has a little something that makes the switch ...

You know those moments where you learn a piece of mind-blowing information that makes you feel like your entire life was a lie? Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor has sent the internet into panic mode ...

Screenshots of a Google Maps aerial view of an industrial storage yard in Los Angeles have gone viral online because they appear to show the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” written on the ground. These ...