Google Maps no longer locks away the entire app when you start a public transport ride. You can now search and change routes ...

Google Maps appears to be rolling out a useful update for public transportation and walking navigation that gives users access to the full map.

“Google Maps frequently directs tourists to routes that simply don’t exist or are blocked by canals,” Tour Leader Venice ...

One of Google's coolest apps, by far, has yet to see the light of day for most users. I'm talking about Maps' live AR walking directions-- now known as Live View -- that shows you via a Pokémon-like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comprehensive analysis of Google Maps, Waze and Apple Maps examines usability, routing accuracy, data handling and features ...

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It was a cold, dark night. Well, actually, it was a cold, dark morning. This, it seems, will form a part of the claim that Lauren Rosenberg is offering against a the driver of a car that hit her while ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...