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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Jul 22, 2025
If you are an Android user who enjoys the convenience of accessing your favorite music streaming applications while navigating with Google Maps, then you may have noticed that some music playback controls are missing after updating to the latest version (v25.28). Google has acknowledged that a...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, May 08, 2025
If you love travelling and exploring new places, Google has added a new feature to Google Maps that could make your planning much easier. Google Maps can now use information gathered from screenshots to help you create a list of treasured...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Dec 02, 2024
We're not sure why it took so long to implement, but Google Maps users can now see Waze's (arguably superior) crowd-sourced incident report markers on their navigation routes. Don't worry, this doesn't mean a death knell for the...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Nov 01, 2024
Google Maps is getting a fresh set of AI features, powered by Google’s Gemini models, that aim to make using the service easier and more immersive for its 2 billion monthly users. The company says that it uses AI “to analyze billions of...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Dec 03, 2020
As it turns out, mapping every part of the inhabited world is an enormous undertaking, but since the launch of Google Street View in 2007, a significant dent has was made in this effort. According to Stafford Marquardt, product manager at...
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Kory Kessel - Thu, May 21, 2015
With less than two work days remaining until the start of the long Memorial Day weekend, many minds are turning to thoughts having nothing at all to do with work... loved ones lost to service or currently serving, barbecue, baseball...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, Jul 27, 2014
Google Maps’ Street View has helped completely change how we’re able to see the world. Indeed, Street View makes navigation far easier than ever before, but it also allows us to see into places from the comfort of our own...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, May 25, 2014
No matter how advanced tools like Google Maps have gotten, this is the question we all still have whenever we map a route: How long will it take me to get there--no, really? Maps always give you an estimate, and they try to take into...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, May 18, 2014
Perhaps you’re a truly robust cyclist, thoroughly unafraid of hills of any size, but many of us are not. (Especially those who frequently schlep one or more children in a tow-behind.) Thus, having a sense of the elevation of your chosen bike route is quite a helpful tool. Google Maps has...
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Seth Colaner - Fri, Jan 31, 2014
That cool, creepy abandoned island fortress from the latest James Bond movie “Skyfall”? That wasn’t a movie set. It’s a real place called Battleship Island, and it’s located off the coast of Nagasaki...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, Nov 10, 2013
Every month, Google Glass gets another update as the closely-watched beta test continues to roll on and expand. The latest update, XE11, brings with it a few handy new features and removes one that Google believes was not very useful in...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Oct 10, 2013
Google never stops working on Google Maps, and a months-long overhaul has brought about many changes. One feature that went away temporarily--the ability to add multiple destinations in directions, by adding stops to your route or dropping...
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Seth Colaner - Sun, Jul 21, 2013
Apparently, Locationary wasn’t the only maps-related acquisition Apple is making these days; the Cupertino company also snapped up HopStop, which is a service that provides “door-to-door transit, walking, biking, and taxi...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Jul 10, 2013
It seems that Google just never stops upgrading Google Maps, whether it’s adding more locales or rolling out app updates. Today, its app updates again; Google announced that it has updated the Google Maps app for smartphones and...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Jun 27, 2013
Google announced that it has added new satellite imagery to Google Maps and Google Earth in order to provide clearer images and remove some artifacts. Using NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite and Google Earth Engine technology, Google says...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, May 15, 2013
We’ve been eagerly anticipating the Google I/O conference because of course Google saved up lots of goodies for its annual event, and the company did not disappoint. Google unloaded with a ton of updates and new products, so...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Mar 28, 2013
Google Maps just keeps getting more powerful and more comprehensive. The latest enhancement to the tool is live transit information, which will be incredibly helpful to the masses of people who rely on public transportation to get around...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Jan 31, 2013
Google Maps has changed the way we navigate the world, whether it’s planning out a trip (or adjusting on the fly), using your smartphone to figure out where the dang ballet studio is, having a Street View look at the town...
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Seth Colaner - Sat, Oct 27, 2012
Google continues to improve upon its Google Maps; earlier this week it announced that Googlers were mapping the Grand Canyon with backpack-mounted cameras, and now the company has added layers to its maps that show the terrain, color gradation indicating vegetation, and additional labels that...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Oct 25, 2012
The value of Google Maps has been highlighted in recent weeks after Apple launched its own maps app, soliciting a collective “boo” from most users and generating a slew of (somewhat unfairly over-the-top) Internet jokes and memes, but Google is not content to sit on its laurels...
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Seth Colaner - Thu, Oct 04, 2012
Users frustrated with Apple’s built-in maps app in iOS 6 have another option: use Google Maps in the Safari mobile web browser. Today, Google announced that its the mobile web-based version of its maps service was getting even better with the addition of Street View on mobile web...
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Seth Colaner - Mon, Sep 17, 2012
We knew that Amazon was ditching Google Maps for its Kindle Fire tablets, but now it’s official: Amazon announced today that it’s Amazon Maps API is now in beta and ready for developers to migrate from the Google Maps API on...
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