IF you struggle to share obscure locations with your friends and family on Google Maps, there's a little-known feature that just might help. "Plus Codes" are digital addresses that Google gives ...

Google launched a new system of digital addresses called Plus Codes, enabling anyone to create a short code representing a location anywhere on the planet.

Google Maps update: How a Plus Code address looks like. Image source: Google Most people might not have a need for Plus Codes immediately, but this novel way of creating unique addresses for every ...

In April, Google Maps released Plus Codes — or Open Location Codes (OLC) — to identify hard-to-find locations across the globe. Starting today, Plus Codes can now be searched both on Google ...

Google Just Forever Changed How We Find One Another, and Not Entirely in a Good Way The search giant introduced a new feature of Google Maps called Plus Codes. There’s just one big minus.

Update: Plus codes, also known as Open Location Code, were first developed by Google in 2015. [Thanks Gary!] In India, we know how challenging it can be to reach a given residential address.

Google Maps has a new feature that will allow users to share their location using Plus Codes. Plus Code is a digital address and it's derived from latitude and longitude coordinates.

Gregor J. Rothfuss, the technology lead for the Google Maps team, announced on Google+ that Google Maps now supports places without addresses. This is also known as location codes or plus codes ...