Google Street View is a valuable tool that allows you to see panoramic views of streets around the world. The interactive feature, which is available on Google Maps and Google Earth, can be used to ...

Want more privacy? You can easily hide your house on Google Street View. Just know you won't be able to undo it later.

Most of us rely on navigation apps to get where we need to go. There are countless options out there, but Google Maps remains the most popular. Does your smartphone or computer default to an app you ...

In the very near future you’ll be seeing photos shot on smartphones woven into Google Maps’ Street View. Until now, the street-level imagery in Street View has been shot mainly by expensive cameras ...

Google Maps' Live View is an augmented reality (AR) feature that overlays directions directly onto your phone's camera feed. Instead of interpreting an abstract line on a flat map ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier to ...

At Google I/O, Google showed off more detailed street maps and live views so you can better plan your route, no matter how you're traveling. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, ...

Singular photographs are great tools for sharing a memory, but Google’s photo sphere technology does a little bit more to help recreate an experience. Built in to most current Android phones, photo ...

Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, ...

Australian start-up BigTinCan (BTC) doesn't pretend it knows your community as well as you do, so it has developed new web-based mapping tools that not only guides you from A to B, but also lets you ...

In a new blog post, Google Maps product manager Sujoy Banerjee has announced arguably the biggest visual upgrades the service has seen in its 15 year history and they will be coming to 220 countries ...

On any given day, there could be half a dozen autonomous cars mapping the same street corner in Silicon Valley. These cars, each from a different company, are all doing the same thing: building ...