I trialed this open-source navigation app that's taking on Google Maps with a community-driven approach, and the results were interesting.

For someone who finds the gestures too complicated for something as simple as zooming, an option in the Google Maps settings ...

Australian Hugh Williams ran Google Maps and invented the tech behind “doomscrolling”. His take on the AI future is ...

Traveling abroad without any bearings can feel a bit like being dropped into a video game with absolutely no tutorial. And if ...

Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.The GPS systems in our ...

Indonesian officials visited Sumatra after devastating floods killed over 1,000 people on the island in December 2025 -- the ...

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 ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Gemini now has more visual search results from Maps.Previously, results were mostly text.Results now include photos, review highlights, and more. If you use Gemini to help find ...

Google Maps is adding new AI features, including a builder agent and an MCP server — a tool that connects AI assistants to Google Maps’ technical documentation — to help developers and users create ...

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. As the holidays approach, millions of ...