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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.

Google Maps and Earth have revolutionized how we see the world. Google Maps navigates unknown cities in real time, and Google Earth operates on a larger scale. Google Earth takes us on an immersive ...

Google Maps could soon add a new “Aerial” button to Street View. The Aerial button will allow for a quick and seamless transition to Satellite View and back. The Aerial button even remembers the ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

More than 2 billion people use Google Maps every month, according to the company, and in fact, AI is nothing new to Google Maps. “A lot of those features that we’ve introduced over the years have been ...

So you can see how crowded the park is before you even go So you can see how crowded the park is before you even go is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering ...

Like Google Maps, Google Earth is marking its 20th birthday this year. Other first-party milestones (10 years) in 2025 include Google Photos, Fi Wireless, and YouTube Music. Google Earth was the ...

An intriguing new feature has been added to Google Maps to explore select cities as if you were a bird flying through the sky. Dubbed Immersive View, the feature utilizes Google’s satellite images and ...

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, ...