While Google Maps is one of the leading choices when it comes to navigation apps, this doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is always working exactly as expected. Not a long time ago, we discussed ...

Google Maps lets you save large map areas to your phone for offline access. When online, search for a city, county, or region ...

In its quest to improve the Google Maps directions and navigation experience, Google quietly rolled out a neat feature that takes advantage of one of the coolest Maps tools. Android users who own ...

Unless you still had an old-school paper map in the glove box, GPS units were the only way to get route guidance in a car before Google Maps and Waze became a thing. Times have changed, and technology ...

Google's native mapping service is so much more than a wayfinding app, and I get the feeling that many of its benefits are overlooked. Having experimented with Google Maps' travel tracking, people ...

Yesterday’s introduction of the Google Maps Navigation service was seen by many as the death of standalone GPS. That isn’t true and rumors of the death have been greatly exaggerated. Consider the ...

Google's mapping application for mobile phones is now able to give a user's approximate location without the need for their handset to be GPS-enabled. Until now, to derive location, the Google Maps ...

Google Maps users on Android and iOS today are seeing a new prompt that explicitly permits the app to crowdsource their “navigation data.” Notably, live turn-by-turn navigation will not work unless ...