Tag Archives: Google Maps

It seems that Google Maps is now displaying some additional prompts for users uploading photographs of food at cafes, asking them to name and rate the dish. Given Google’s mission to catalog and organise the world’s data, this isn’t surprising – Google can use this additional information to take its …

Everyone’s favourite mustachioed plumber is coming to Google Maps this weekend in celebration of Mario day (that’s right, Mar 10 .. Mario .. get it?) Partnering with Nintendo, Google is bringing Mario to your driving experience today and he’ll hang around for a limited time. When driving, instead of the …

Google’s Map and Local Guides team have taken to their blog overnight calling on people with disabilities and their family, carers and friends or even the general public to help add information relating to accessibility about venues, places of interest and transport stops and interchanges. The call to arms comes …

Google’s Local Guides program recently updated their Local Guide program adding in more levels, more ways to collect points and a big question about what attaining the new levels would grant you? According to Android Police some Local Guides are now receiving an email inviting them to sign up to …

Google Maps is one of those products that just seems to continually get new features, and typically it just gets better and better. The latest update to hit the Android app for Google Maps will give you a forecast of how long travel time will be to a searched destination …

Google first started working on providing live public transport data in Google Maps thanks to one Googler’s 20% project. Jump forward to today and live transit data is live in cities all over the globe. New South Wales today joins that list thanks to a collaboration between Google Australia and …

Google’s always adding new features to Google Maps. It’s one of the company’s primary ways of getting consumers on board with their services and has developed into one of those “default” ways we do things. People look to Google Maps for information about places and venues, directions to/from those places …

Google’s Local Guides program is about to get its biggest change since it’s launch, with the program growing from 5 levels to 10. The addition of new levels adds more ways to earn points and a new tiered point system to reward more valuable contributions like reviews or adding new …

In the wake of the closure of Google’s Map Maker service, it seems Google is bringing some functionality back with users getting the limited ability to edit roads. In the good old days before some moron on the internet ruined it for everyone Google had an excellent map editing tool …

As Google’s collection of user-generated reviews grows through initiatives like the Local Guides program Google is ammasing a vast collection of information that can be useful to all of us. What happens however if you’re visiting a “foreign place” and can’t read the local language? As of today, Google will …

Just last week we noted that Google Maps’ new location sharing feature was going to appear on devices in the not too distant future, and it seems we’re now living in the future: the Maps location sharing feature is now here. While browsing Maps tonight (to look at the route …

Ever wanted to send your location or your ETA to someone? Soon you will be able to with Google Maps share function. In an update that will soon be rolling out worldwide you’ll be able share your location and also your trip itself so that the person you share it …

Have you ever wished you could put together your travel itinerary or a list of hotspots for visiting friends all from within Google Maps? If you’re familiar with the My Maps app or you were a higher enough local guide there has been a few options.  Now, Google has released an …

If you’re a Google Local Guide, you probably have answered a few of the cards asking questions about places you’ve been. Things like is their a kids menu, do they serve alcohol or is there WiFi (free or paid) available. If you’re an active local guide then you’ve probably also …

Earlier this week we exclusively revealed that Google was testing new features for Google Maps. This evening we’re seeing one of those features live for some of the team. For the Local Guides or avid map editors out there, you may be interested in a quick way to jump into …