Apple Watch is pretty awesome at doing a lot of things. But mapping workouts isn’t one of them. At least, not until now. Back in 2016, I was pretty disappointed with the maps I got from my Apple Watch ...

If you're planning to hike this summer, experts say to consider bringing a paper map. That’s because hiking organizations and rescuers around the country are seeing an increase in injuries and rescues ...

Every day, millions of people worldwide use mobile navigation services, and there is a good chance that you are one of them. We might not realize this, but navigation services have made our lives ...

The team behind the offline GPS app Sygic just added 88 more maps to its portfolio. What does that mean? Well, the app now covers the entire planet, save a few remote areas. Officially, the app covers ...

Like all the other navigation applications currently available for Android and iPhone, including Google Maps and Waze, Apple Maps needs location access to determine where you are. In other words, it ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...

The oft-quoted saying “all models are wrong, but some are useful” is a tounge-in-cheek way of saying that at some level, tools we use to predict how the world behaves will differ from reality in some ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

It wasn’t that long ago that the GPS navigation technology available to hunters, fishers, and backpackers offered little more than gray, pixelated screens, with only the most basic navigation and ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.