Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

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Google Maps is an incredibly popular app that makes navigation, driving, and finding places an absolute breeze. The app goes beyond just a 2D map view, with features like Street View showing you ...

Google Maps could soon add a new “Aerial” button to Street View. The Aerial button will allow for a quick and seamless transition to Satellite View and back. The Aerial button even remembers the ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

"Pretty wild, my street is on there. It's really like standing in the middle of my street and looking at my house, with decent clarity. Kind of weird, but cool nonetheless," one person wrote on the ...

Google's 3D "immersive view" isn't completely ready, but you can get a glimpse of it starting today. The company is rolling out updates to Google Maps for Android and iOS that introduce aerial views ...

Google Maps now allows you to view your favorite global landmarks from a 3D perspective. Although the three-dimensional immersive view is not entirely complete at the moment, you can now check the ...

You may have thought it was pretty cool at first. Seeing your house on Google Maps and Google Earth. Now, it's kind of creepy. And putting pictures of private residences online for anyone in the world ...

Google Maps Street View changed the game for digital exploration: Anywhere Google's cameras have been, you can check out for yourself, without ever needing to leave your house. Of course, if you're ...