As mentioned, Google Maps allows any user to add to its knowledge base in this way. What is the incentive for Local Guides who go the extra mile voluntarily? There's a whole benefits system just ...

Google has partnered with city authorities to display a new alert for users running the app to get navigation directions in ...

Google Maps Go is a lightweight and basic version of Google Maps, but it saves me from the main app's most annoying issue ...

Traffic in most densely populated countries is often mismanaged or reliant on dated infrastructure and poor monitoring systems. Our favorite navigation apps like Google Maps and a ...

Google Maps is now getting a simple but very useful “Go” tab on Android and iOS. The new Google Maps “Go” tab subsumes today’s “Commute” section and significantly expands the ...

I tested Apple Maps on Android using the browser. It’s not perfect, but it’s prettier, calmer, and, ever so often, more ...

but there are still a lot of Google apps that need to go on a diet. The newest to join that group is Maps Go, now available on Play Store but not available for anyone. That is, unless you know its ...

It’s been roughly a week since Google announced the launch of Android Go — a pared-down version of Android 8.1 Oreo, designed to run on lower-end devices packing between 1GB and 512MB of RAM.

Having said that, Google has also introduced series of lightweight apps (Gmail, Assistant, Files Go, and Maps) that will slowly become available for such devices. Up until now only Files Go file ...

Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

During a press event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Brian McClendon — Vice President of Engineering for Google Maps — discussed how the service will let us go off-road, thanks to something ...