Tim Hardwick

Tim is a Senior Editor at MacRumors and has been writing for the site since 2016. Formerly a magazine journalist, his work ...
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MCP Google Map Server

Google officially announced MCP support for Google Maps on December 10, 2025, introducing Maps Grounding Lite - a fully-managed MCP server for geospatial data and routing. This community project ...

This Google Maps feature will change the way you navigate with the app — and it's hiding in plain sight

Google Maps makes navigating to your destination much easier, and the Map Details options can improve this tenfold with only a couple of taps.

I’ll never use Google Maps again without enabling this simple setting – it’s changed my journeys for the better

Want a better Google Maps experience? Enabling this small feature and your journeys could start instantly feeling the ...
Minnesota's New Country

The One MN City You Can’t Explore On Google Street View

In this affluent Minnesota city, privately owned streets keep Google Street View out, showcasing the intersection of modern tech and community privacy.
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Google Maps Card for Home Assistant

💡 Most Google APIs have quotas and exceeding limits may incur charges. However Google Maps JavaScript API itself has no daily limit and it is free and unlimited as of August, 2025 until any policy ...