Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

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Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

Google is rolling out some new Maps features to its iOS and Android apps for the summer, including new location sharing options, cycling directions enhancements, and photorealistic aerial views of ...

With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking to go beyond a static top-down map With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking ...

Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things — wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning ...

Google Maps' Street View feature gives you a street-level view of an area, showing you much more detail than you can see from aerial views. Using Street View, you can "visit" your business or the area ...

Sometimes when you scroll across a Google Map screen you'll see blocks of grey. Usually this occurs when the map is set to satellite view and the application struggles to load the data fast enough.