With more than 1 billion people using the app every month to navigate their surroundings, Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps out there. Most of that Google Maps use happens on ...

iOS/Android: You probably know you can pinch to zoom in and out on Google Maps, but there's another, less intuitive shortcut that's more suited for one hand use. All you need to do is double tap on ...

Google expert Philipp Lenssen details how to manipulate Google Maps URLs to zoom in close enough to see an individual camel in the middle of Africa. The technique doesn't work in all locations, but ...

Ever since we did the posts on historical imagery density we have been looking for a way to map parts of the earth that do not yet have historical imagery. Sadly, the Google Earth plugin does not ...

Google Maps Zoom – Google has increased the levels of zoom in Google Maps so you can zoom in further on high resolutions areas. You can still go further with Google Earth, but the level of zoom in ...

Over the past few months, there have been random complaints from Google Maps users about the live traffic data. In short, people are saying that when they zoom into see more detail on the red colored ...

Curiosity has now been roving Mars for two (Earth) years, and Google is celebrating with the release of new maps of the moon and Mars. To get there, head anywhere on Earth in Google Maps, zoom all the ...