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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
New look, new features for Google's mobile mapping software
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, Google showed a sneak peek at the "next major version" of Google Maps for An...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Save battery life and improve location data for every app
We're live here at the Google I/O 2013 keynote, where Google has started off with talking about APIs for Android. As one of its firs...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 11, 2013
Crowd-sourced mapping tool arrives on British shores
Long absent from the country, Google's crowd-sourced mapping tool Google Map Maker has finally arrived in the UK today. The tool allow Br...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2013
Voice guided, turn-by-turn navigation available for millions more people today on Google Maps for Android
The Google Maps team has taken to Google+ and announced the addition of voice navigation...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 31, 2013
The end of YouTube is just the start of Google's April Fool's Day 2013 fun. Up next we've got Google Treasure Maps. It's, ummm, Google Maps done up treasure-map style, having been sc...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 27, 2013
Google Maps -- on mobile and the web -- has been updated with fresh live transit data in three U.S. cities. The new data covers departure times for seven lines on the New York City subway, in additi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 20, 2013
Google has just pushed out some bugfix updates in Google Play for both Maps and Earth, along with a couple of feature improvements for Drive. Those improvements for Drive are the ability to stream v...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 06, 2013
Google is always adding neat bits of information to its Maps database, and today its adding select ski resorts to that list. Users viewing certain ski slopes around the U.S. and Canada will now see ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2013
Deep links and even embedding panoramas can be done, but it takes a few steps
I might have mentioned once or twice how Photo Sphere is one of my favorite features of Android 4.2 on the Nexus 4. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2013
Yesterday it seems that every single Windows Phone user was over at WPCentral lamenting the loss of the Google Maps web app for Windows Phone. It seems that Google made a change that redirected...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 02, 2013
Hyundai has announced a new deal with Google that will bring further integration of Google Maps with their Blue Link telematics platform. Blue Link is an in-car application that aids with mapping an...
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by Simon Sage
Dec 31, 2012
It's time to get up close and personal with the Android Central editors. You get a taste of the apps we're trying on a week-by-week basis, but what about those that actually stay on our phon...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 19, 2012
NORAD might have deserted Google Maps this year in favour of Microsoft to power their Santa Tracker, but Google has gone ahead and come out with their own apps anyway. Santa Tracker is available to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
In case you missed it overnight, Google Maps is back on iOS. (No iPad version yet.) And it's pretty damn good, as you'd expect from a Google app.
And now that we look at it, Google's go...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2012
Just a week before the Mayan Apocalypse, Google Maps is back on iOS. It actually looks pretty good, and should help keep folks out of dingo territory. Rene and company are looking it over, expect al...
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by Victoria Ho
Dec 04, 2012
Google Play services is now at version 2.0, and a couple of great new features are on board.
First is an update to the Maps API for Android apps. Version 2 of the API now includes vector-based...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2012
Many countries have been enjoying Google Maps' free turn-by-turn navigation feature for a couple of years, but so far Mexico's been left out of the fun. That changes today with the launch of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2012
It's not every day that Apple has to admit one of its own products, well, sucks. (Hell, it's not very often that Apple releases a product that's not at least as good as the alternatives....
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by Richard Devine
Sep 22, 2012
By now, the vast majority of Android users -- no, make that people in the world -- have heard about Apple's new replacement for Google Maps in iOS 6. Proudly announced during their iOS 6 keynote...
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by Andrew Martonik
Sep 19, 2012
The latest version of Google Maps has just been pushed out in the Google Play Store, and offers a large bit of functionality to the app. Now when you are using Google Maps on your computer, all of y...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 05, 2012
Over the past little while now, we've some cool new videos come from Google. Most notably, the new Nexus 7 videos received quite a bit of attention but the Google Maps team must have wanted to h...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 29, 2012
The latest Google Maps update has now appeared in the Google Play Store and shows the app has been bumped up to v6.11.1. After the last update, many HTC Rezound users had issues and were forced to d...
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by Richard Devine
Aug 15, 2012
Google Maps for Android has received a boost to version 6.10 today, bringing some pretty interesting improvments to the transit information in particular. In addition, Google is now boasting schedul...
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by Richard Devine
Aug 07, 2012
Real time traffic information is a real day saver, and todays news from Google brings the service to a further 130 U.S. cities within Google Maps.
These smaller cities such as Kalamazoo,...
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by Richard Devine
Jul 31, 2012
Regular subway commuters in New York City, this one's for you. Google has flipped the switch from this morning, on a new addition to their transit information in the City. When searching for tra...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 27, 2012
While Google Earth recently impressed us with its 3D antics at Google I/O, its 2D counterpart, Google Maps is just as important. Today Maps sees its 2D imagery significantly upgraded in a numbe...
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by Richard Devine
Jul 20, 2012
Your Android device, coupled with Google Maps -- in particular the new, offline features -- is a pretty powerful way of finding your way around when you visit another country. Google never settles f...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 12, 2012
As we learned at this year's Google I/O keynote, Android adoption is booming in developing countries, including many in Africa. And so to help these new users get the most out of the platform, G...
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by Simon Sage
Jul 11, 2012
Google Maps for Android was recently updated their indoor location database with over twenty popular museums across the U.S, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum o...
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by Simon Sage
Jun 27, 2012
Following up on the Maps announcement a few weeks ago, Google has released the long-awaited update for Android which will enable offline caching. That means you'll be able to keep navigating whe...
