Google Maps is getting sharper satellite imagery and more Street View content, while Google Earth will soon let users access more historical imagery.
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Google Maps has long supported the ability to show which lane you should be in, but an update to Android Auto is making lane guidance more obvious and easier to read too.
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It’s been a long road, but incident reports are finally coming to Google Maps on Android Auto. As the full rollout takes its sweet time, we’re finally getting a closer look at how the functionality will actually work.
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Google Maps is picking up a couple of new features on Android Auto, with a new and much easier way to add a stop on your route.
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Over the past few hours, there have been more than a few reports of Google Maps for Android crashing.
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After rolling out the simplified bottom bar on mobile, a Google Maps redesign of pins introduces new colors and shapes.
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After coming to Android in late July, the Google Maps bottom bar redesign, which aims to make the app a bit cleaner, is now on the iPhone.
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As announced with the Pixel Watch 3, Google Maps for Wear OS is already rolling out offline support.
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Android Automotive now has a new heads-up mini pane that indicates how far you have to travel, how long it will take and the estimated arrival time when navigating using Google Maps.
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As previewed at I/O 2024, Google Maps is more widely rolling out a redesign that simplifies the bottom bar.
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Available this Summer in Paris, Google Maps is using AR to help give you a trip back in time to see the history of the city and some of its iconic landmarks.
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In addition to image safety, Google is rolling out new features to Waze and Maps, like a redesign of incident reporting.
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Starting back in 2020, Google Maps and Search gained the ability to show the boundaries of nearby wildfires. Now, support for wildfire info in Google Maps and Search is expanding to more countries through Europe and Africa.
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Besides partnering with NBC and Team USA, Google is celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympics across its major services.
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Google has announced a few new features for Maps that are specific to India, including support for incident reports on Android Auto, something we’ve been asking about for years.
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After adding public transit directions earlier this year, Google Maps for Wear OS now has a redesigned Tile and two new complications.
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Google Maps, like Waze, supports user-based reports of incidents such as crashes, road conditions, and police speed traps, and support for that functionality is finally showing up on CarPlay.
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Live Activities are a really cool, but underused feature of iOS. Google Maps first announced that the app would support Live Activities back in 2023, but it’s still not arrived. However, after some tests went live earlier this year, we’re seeing more users reporting the feature is live.
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Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheet-based layouts. This revamp is now more widely rolling out.
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Back in 2019, Google Maps for Android gained a speedometer that simply “shows you how fast you’re driving on the road” and it’s now coming to the iPhone.
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Google Maps is a widely used tool for getting around, but one user spotted what was thought to be a new ad format where ads pop up during navigation to recommend a “quick detour” – thankfully that’s not the case.
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Back in December, Google announced that Maps Location History would soon be stored on your phone instead of the cloud. This change to the Google Maps Timeline is continuing to roll out, and will see the deprecation of Your Timeline on the web.
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After updating to the latest beta version of Google Maps, some Android Auto users are having issues with mapping in their cars.
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Announced this week, New York City officials are putting a focus on improving the use and finding of public bathrooms in the city, and that includes using Google Maps to do it.
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