Before Google Maps and smartphones, people used printed maps, often from a site called MapQuest. What's happened to the company in the years since?

Through vast cross-country stretches or tight city streets, Google Maps and Waze guide you where you need to go—but which one is the top map app? I put them head-to-head to find out.

Google Maps ships as the default navigation app on almost all Android phones, helping millions of users daily to check for directions, traffic status, and more. However, you can use Google Maps ...

Google Maps can be your ... Street View to navigate by driving or cycling, I find that it is best used while walking. When I travel to popular tourist destinations in busy cities, Street View has ...

How to navigate with Bing Maps One of the biggest features of any mapping service is the ability to deliver driving directions. Google Maps does this very well.

If you’ve ever started walking or biking directions on your phone only to squint at a tiny arrow on your wrist, Google just ...

Google Maps on your Pixel Watch will now auto-open full screen when you start walking or cycling directions on your phone.

The Google Maps app for Wear OS now automatically launches when you start navigation, but only when you actually need it.

Google Maps is starting to show Live Updates for navigation, but the rollout is limited to a handful of users so far.

The usual style of Google Maps navigation overlay shrinks the app into a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) window. It hovers ...

Google Maps is quietly testing Live Updates on Android 16, bringing real-time progress notifications to your lock screen, AOD, and status bar.