Despite being announced last year, Glanceable directions seemed to have fallen off the radar. But now, this game-changing feature is making its debut, bringing essential navigation details like ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Google Maps introduces Glanceable Directions, offering real-time updates and turn-by-turn guidance directly on users’ lock screens. Google Maps is a widely-used navigation application developed by ...

A capable map app will save you time (and your sanity), but which one is best at dodging all the holiday season traffic? I tested both, and there's a clear winner.

Timed to arrive ahead of the summer travel season, Google’s bringing new features to Maps focused on discovery and navigation. New “glanceable directions,” which Google announced in February, will ...

Earlier this week Google announced the option to easily send Google Maps directions or navigation instructions right to an iPhone from a Google Search, making getting directions a breeze so users ...

One of Google's coolest apps, by far, has yet to see the light of day for most users. I'm talking about Maps' live AR walking directions-- now known as Live View -- that shows you via a Pokémon-like ...

The company is leaning more on individual cartography contributions: Map Maker now lets people test and correct driving directions for user-added roads. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Earlier this year Google launched a beta of an augmented reality walking directions feature called “Live View.” Live View allows users to use Google Maps and their smartphone’s camera to see real-time ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

Google Maps has quietly restored a winter favorite, bringing detailed ski lifts and trail overlays back into the app after ...

iOS: We're all excited to have Google Maps back on our iPhones, but the app looses some of its usefulness because it doesn't integrate with Siri. If you want to ask iOS' virtual assistant for ...