Google IO is unfortunately becoming increasingly well known for showing off devices or features that never seem to make it out of Mountain View, looking at you Nexus Q and fence-removal tool in Google Photos! At IO 2018 Google showed of AR (augmented reality) navigation in Google Maps, and since …
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Google Maps has to be one of Google’s best and most consistent products with new and improved features coming out with a regular cadence. Today’s new maps functionality incorporates direct messaging with businesses (who have signed up) from Maps or search results. This feature was apparently rolled out last year …
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If you’re in the Maps Beta you’ll have seen this functionality previously and in announcements for overseas markets back in July, but finally the ability to report accidents and speed cameras has come to Google Maps in Australia. The new ability to add accidents and speed cameras pops up in …
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Google Maps is one of the mainstays of Google’s stable of apps and services and certainly one of the best performing and most updated. Today they are rolling out an enhancement to their location/trip/’journey sharing’ feature that makes sharing each trip quick and easy right from the navigation interface. After …
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Chances are when you were a kid you had a blow up Globe; I know I did. Google has released a nice little change to Google Maps recently that means when you zoom out – and I mean way out – no longer is the world flat like our ancestors …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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