GLOBAL - When Google learned of former US Marine Winston Fiore's plan to hike 5000 miles across Southeast Asia using only Google Maps as his guide, they got involved.

Location History Visualizer evaluates and weighs your Google Maps location data and then displays it in the form of a heat map. Dark red spots on the heat map are places where you have been very ...

Aside from just telling us directions, Google Maps is now being used to solve a decades-old border dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Lines drawn on a map 70 years ago continue to be a ...

(See a before and after map comparison of North Korea.) According to a Google blog post, the maps were created by a group of volunteer “citizen cartographers,” through an interface known as ...