At Google I/O, Google showed off more detailed street maps and live views so you can better plan your route, no matter how you're traveling. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google Maps’ Street View feature was created 15 years ago, and since then, has added more than 220 billion Street View images from ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier to ...

From AR navigation to business messaging and reviews, Google Maps is a big platform. The latest update today is focused on improving the visual quality of the default Google Maps layer — especially ...

Apple doesn't seem too interested in going toe-to-toe in navigation.

Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, ...

No audio available for this content. Creating detailed street maps and keeping them updated is an expensive and time-consuming task performed mostly by large companies. They ignore the many parts of ...