Tag Archives: Google Maps

Google Maps just goes from strength to strength. Along with the company’s other products like Gmail, Photos and Google Pay, it has transformed the way we get things done. Google keeps adding new features, and most of those are real improvements to the service. Crowd reporting of traffic incidents is …

To mark the importance of World Sight Day Google has unveiled their new Voice Guidance feature for walking directions in Google Maps. Voice Guidance annotates the world via audio description ,adding rich auditory information about the users navigation path to their destination. The enhanced guidance provides cure about distance, upcoming …

In 2019, and after years of personal data breaches from major organisations we’re all a little more aware and cautious about handing our information over in exchange for particular services. Tech companies are meeting consumers in the middle, being more open and communicative about the data they store as well …

Google Maps is one of Google’s ‘flagship’ services that has transcended into something more than the sum of its parts. The latest update to the service sees the introduction of multi-mode transport. The traditional Google Maps journey involves selecting your destination, selecting your transport mode (walking, driving, public transport etc) …

With Google Trips becoming the latest product that Google has killed off people who used the server have been hoping for a solution a little better than Google’s new Travel website, especially on mobile. In a blog post today they announced that the future trip tracking features will be rolled …

A lot of us use public transport every day and whether it’s to get to work or just get around it sometimes is just plain uncomfortable. Now Google have taken Maps even further than just directions with an ability to tell you how crowded the public transport you are about …

Google has greatly expanded its offerings for businesses on their platform in the list few years. It seems that even the most obscure local businesses have detailed information about them presented in search and Maps. The company is launching new features for those profiles to help connect businesses with customers. …

Google Maps has been rolling out some new features based around navigation, transit and personal safety over the last couple of weeks, and today news had emerged of a new feature in India designed to help passengers stay safe in Navigation mode. Users who are getting into a taxi can …

It was only yesterday morning I wrote that Google’s always looking to make products more useful and helpful; today they’ve added detailed information about floods, hurricanes and earthquakes to Maps in an effort to help keep users safe. Detailed by Hannah Stulberg, Google Maps’ Product Manager on the company’s Keyword …

Google’s always looking for ways to improve their offerings and make them more helpful, and today Android Police has spotted a useful new feature in Maps that displays your current speed while navigating. The feature, not yet widely available, adds a small circle with your current speed. It can be …

Yesterday Google officially announced their new AR feature to aid navigation while walking and that it would be rolling out to Pixel users imminently. They weren’t kidding it seems with the new Maps feature rolling out today. Here in the US AR for Navigation has appeared on Pixel phones this …

Finding a charging station with an available port for your electric vehicle just got easier for Google Maps users, with new EV charging station display data added to the application today – in the US and UK. At charging stations from partner vendors, Maps will now show the number of …