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 ...
Between Google Maps and Apple Maps, there's no major difference in accuracy between them. The difference really boils down to ...
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 ...
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 navigation app is getting better at providing transit directions. And it’s becoming more like a social platform. The navigation app is getting better at providing transit directions. And it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Google Maps has a new power-saving mode that is supposed to reduce battery usage by showing only the most essential details ...
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 ...
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 ...