Google Maps can be your best friend when traveling to an unfamiliar place, but the app is not just about showing directions to the destination on your itinerary. Google has packed in many more ...

Google My Maps is a hidden feature of the search engine's popular map application. The Google Maps app is seen on an Apple iPhone 4S on December 13, 2012 in Fairfax, California. Three months after ...

Last October, Google added new, eco-friendly driving directions to Maps. In the US, you could pull up a driving route that would take into account things like congestion and incline to find you the ...

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Despite being announced last year, Glanceable directions seemed to have fallen off the radar. But now, this game-changing feature is making its debut, bringing essential navigation details like ...

Take your route planning to the next level.

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With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping many of us away from buses and trains (and Uber and Lyft rides), we've reverted to driving ourselves. This means more time with Google Maps — whether that's on our ...

Google Maps' latest AI-powered tools go even further, offering itinerary suggestions, immersive destination views and smarter navigation -- making it easier to adapt when the holiday rush throws ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is tweaking its Maps app to highlight environmentally friendlier directions to users’ destinations, the company said. Maps will soon suggest the car route with the lowest carbon ...

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