Google Maps recently rolled out a handy update designed to make it even easier to find your destination when using its turn-by-turn navigation feature. Currently available for the Android version of ...

Most of us rely on navigation apps to get where we need to go. There are countless options out there, but Google Maps remains the most popular. Does your smartphone or computer default to an app you ...

It’s like déjà vu all over again for Google with privacy concerns related to its Street View Maps. The European Union, which earlier this week revealed that it is investigating antitrust accusations ...

In the very near future you’ll be seeing photos shot on smartphones woven into Google Maps’ Street View. Until now, the street-level imagery in Street View has been shot mainly by expensive cameras ...

Google is preparing to shut down the standalone Street View app for iPhone and Android, but the feature will continue to live inside the Google Maps app. Street View is a quick way to explore any ...

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Google Maps' Street View feature gives you a street-level view of an area, showing you much more detail than you can see from aerial views. Using Street View, you can "visit" your business or the area ...

Google Street View helps you virtually see locations worldwide. Instant Street View is a faster shortcut to Google Street View and offers quick access to visual renderings of locations. Instant Street ...

Google has been adding the insides of buildings to its Google Maps Street View for years now, and Google Arts & Culture (the program that brought you “find your art doppelgänger”) has been collecting ...

McCracken’s Law of Software Mascots states definitively that they’re almost always a truly lousy idea. Most of the evidence has come in the form of grating, patronizing Microsoft characters, from Bob ...

The Faroe Islands didn't have Google street view, but they wanted to. So they strapped 360-degree cameras on the backs of sheep to make their own. Like a lot of remote places, Google Street View ...