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 ...

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 ...

Navigation apps are one of the most useful features of smartphones, and Google Maps is widely considered the cream of the crop — at least among free options. But chances are there are some features ...

As we have explained in the past, Google Earth has several ‘background imagery’ data sets that it uses when there is no good quality high resolution satellite imagery available. In Africa there are ...

My experience with Google Maps not getting along with Apple's multitouch mouse was really annoying. But in the last couple weeks, it's become intolerable. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...