My Maps is a hugely powerful custom maps creation tool that Google has forgotten about. Here's how I use it to level up Google Maps.

Google Maps is great for navigating around a city, but as far as managing road trips, it could do so much better. Here's how.

A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers while surveying Birhar village at night because the villagers mistook them for thieves. A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers ...

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

Update (9/12/25): Google Maps is back online. It's not just you: Google Maps is down. According to 9to5Google, the outage started sometime around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. PT), and seems to be isolated to the ...

Google wants to improve real-time monitoring on Android 16 by adding Live Updates to Google Maps. The feature, initially introduced in the latest Android ecosystem, enables users to keep track of food ...

When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...

As long as I can remember, it seems like Google Maps has had its universally loved timeline feature. Wherever you go and whatever you visit, Google Maps saves your route and location data for a couple ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as NotebookCheck, and ...

The Google Maps app is functioning properly again after thousands of users across the country reported problems with the app Thursday afternoon, including in the Chicago area. According to the website ...

In a rare outage, Google Maps is down and will not load as of 1 p.m. PT on Thursday. This is impacting the Android and iOS apps. The map layer itself — regardless of location — is not properly loading ...