Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

Google Maps for Business is a service for enterprises and government organizations that need to visualize their assets on a map. Today, the company has announced that customers can now purchase Google ...

At I/O in May, Google announced a 3D immersive view for Maps that would let you see the world in a whole new way. As a first step toward it, the company is rolling out “photorealistic aerial views” of ...

Google Maps could soon add a new “Aerial” button to Street View. The Aerial button will allow for a quick and seamless transition to Satellite View and back. The Aerial button even remembers the ...

It's about to get a lot easier to toggle between Street View and Satellite View on Google Maps on Android — and it's coming via an Aerial View button. Android Authority, which activated the button ...

Google has added satellite technology to its mapping service, in a move to outdo competitors Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and others. The new satellite feature allows consumers to get an aerial photo snapshot of ...

Screenshots of a Google Maps aerial view of an industrial storage yard in Los Angeles have gone viral online because they appear to show the words “HELP” and “TRAFICO” written on the ground. These ...

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Over the weekend, Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor shared a funny anecdote about the early days of the product. The Twitter thread tells the story of how Sergey Brin wanted to name what is widely ...

[Updated: 9-Sep 1550 ET – The scope of this update appears to be very widespread – this list is growing! Also, all the data is now in Google Earth as well! Also, new version of Google Earth 4 Beta is ...