Google Maps and Earth have revolutionized how we see the world. Google Maps navigates unknown cities in real time, and Google Earth operates on a larger scale. Google ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In anticipation of the United Nations climate change conference scheduled to occur in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, Google Inc. is presenting a series of narrated tours through its ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

Google has added fresh high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery to its mapping services for 25 cities and 72 countries. Among the imagery to get an update is the Olympic Park, London, where ...

Google Earth is making a significant change to its product, with the addition of content creation tools that allow anyone to create maps and stories for its platform. The feature is an expansion of ...

We’ve been getting quite an influx of questions about how to correct map errors in Google Earth lately (address in the wrong location, point of interest is missing, etc), so I thought it’d be worth ...

USHUAIA, Argentina — Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. With the release of Google Maps’ new gaming API last month, it is ...

I seldom use Google Maps to actually get directions, but I open the app almost every day for other reasons that might not be so obvious. Truth is, Google Maps is useful for a lot more than just ...

Google's Earth and Maps have had an update that "virtually eliminates clouds" for most of the world. Some of the new images of the Earth also have a much better resolution than before, to bring ...