Google officially announced MCP support for Google Maps on December 10, 2025, introducing Maps Grounding Lite - a fully-managed MCP server for geospatial data and routing. This community project ...

Want a better Google Maps experience? Enabling this small feature and your journeys could start instantly feeling the ...

On paper, switching from Google Maps to Waze felt like a no-brainer. Waze’s entire identity is built around the promise of outsmarting traffic in real time. And compared to Google Maps’ increasingly ...

The Gemini integration on Google Maps now also works for walking and cycling routes. If you call Gemini, it can efficiently ...

You can now talk to Google Maps while walking or cycling. Here is what the latest AI features can actually do.

After getting started with driving navigation last fall, Gemini in Google Maps expands to walking and bicycling.

A Chrome browser extension posing as an artificial intelligence assistant is siphoning OpenAI credentials from more than ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Google Maps is the only navigation service I ...

iPhone users face this choice every time they need directions: Stick with the pre-installed Apple Maps, or switch to Google Maps. A decade ago, the answer felt obvious, but today, it's not as clear.

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...

While most people associate Google Maps with real-time navigation, the app has packed in plenty of features over the years. While some of these are related to its main purpose, like offline maps, ...