Google Maps no longer locks away the entire app when you start a public transport ride. You can now search and change routes without ending the trip.

Google Maps can easily help users save and navigate to their parking spots. This quick trick can save you time and help avoid ...

The perfect scenario for Google’s new Visual Position System, or VPS, is one you’ve probably been in already: Emerging from a subway station in a strange city. You’ve got your route planned out on ...

Parking pockets aren’t an official Google Maps feature. But they refer to small, dependable spaces you discover near your ...

Earlier this year Google launched a beta of an augmented reality walking directions feature called “Live View.” Live View allows users to use Google Maps and their smartphone’s camera to see real-time ...

The AR feature operates similarly to standard Google Maps, using the device's GPS to pinpoint your location. However, instead of making you follow a tiny blue dot on a virtual version of the street, ...

I didn’t expect Google to go soaring out of the gate soon soon after the company teased its augmented reality ambitions for Google Maps at yesterday’s I/O 2019 keynote, but here we go. Starting today, ...

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A quick Google search will surface article after article claiming that Waze is far better than Google Maps. But is that ...

Google is rolling out a Maps update that adds more in-depth spoken walking directions, with the aim of helping vision-impaired people navigate with more ease. The detailed voice guidance feature will ...

Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level ...