Google Maps is turning 15 years old. Not surprisingly, Google is using this as an opportunity to launch a few new updates to its massive mapping service. For starters, Maps has a new icon, a four-color take on the location “pin” that has been part of Google Maps for years now. More meaningful to users […]
TomTom has revealed that it struck a deal with Huawei to provide maps, navigation and traffic data for the Chinese manufacturer’s apps. The arrangement had been struck a while back, according to TomTom’s Remco Meerstra, but hadn’t been revealed until now. It’s not shocking that Huawei would forge a partnership like this. With the US […]
Google has managed to catalog an unbelievable amount of imagery to populate its various mapping services. In a blog post by Google Maps Senior Product Manager Thomas Escobar said the company has now captured more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery. That’s enough to circle the globe more than 400 times, Escobar notes. […]
Google is rolling out Incognito Mode to iOS users, giving you the same ability to search for and navigate to locations without leaving records behind on your account or Location History. This won’t affect Assistant queries or prevent outsiders from theoretically snooping on your Google Maps traffic this is mainly so that Google and anyone […]
Earlier this month Google announced that its new Incognito feature for Maps had started to roll out. It looks like Google was happy with the limited launch, as the update has now been spotted in the wild for users of the public version. In a post to the Google Maps Help forums, the community manager […]
Incognito mode for Chrome is probably one of the most useful things about the browser. Google revealed many things at I/O 2019 last May but, as typical, not all of them have materialized just yet. Of course, those may still happen in due time, and it seems that Google is indeed taking its sweet time […]
Finding the fastest way from A to B across multiple modes of transport is about to get easier with the latest update on Google Maps. The app will now allow users to pair ride-sharing with other types of transport and movement into one journey as the tech giant aims to make the first or last […]
The National Transportation Safety Board asked Google, Apple and Microsoft in 2016 to add railroad crossings to their navigation apps according to a report in Politico. The NTSB, which investigates accidents but has no regulatory power, requested the safety improvements as part of a probe into the Oxnard crash. In that accident, a truck driver […]
Google isn’t just counting on speed limits in Maps to encourage safe driving it is now showing your actual speed. Android Police has learned that Google Maps is rolling out an optional speedometer that kicks in while you’re using driving navigation. It displays next to the current speed limit and changes color if you are […]