Category: Google Maps

One of the most annoying things about the new Google Maps is that it is missing basic and fundamental features that makes the old Google Maps essential. One such feature is the Pegman, that lets you easily zoom into Street View imagery…

Linda Buquet, a top contributor in the Google Local forums, posted a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums complaining about a massive spam attack in Google that started working on August 22, 2013…

Mike Blumenthal noticed that Google is now showing and highlighting in the search results the service area businesses service directly in the map preview on the right side of the page…

Perfect timing, I am headed to Israel soon and I can get my Google Maps for iPhone fix in the native languages there. I can get it in Hebrew or Arabic, I can read Hebrew but not Arabic – but I’d prefer English anyway…

Google announced new features being added to the new version of Google Maps. The big announcement is a yawn because the old version of Google Maps had this…

Google announced on Google+ a new update to the Google Glass software codenamed XE10. I got the update last night and this is one of the most limited updates Google released for Glass in a while.

But…..

Google is now showing the individual who submitted a review on Google Local if the submission was removed…

Abby from the Google Maps team posted in the Google Maps Help forum asking Google Maps users who are interested in custom maps to sign up for a research study.

Abby said if you use My Maps and Maps Engine Lite you may be interested in learning about a…

A Google Maps Help thread has a bug report from two different iOS users with the transit directions in the new Google Maps app.

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It seems as if Google dropped the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps a few weeks ago.

A Google Maps Help thread has dozens of complaints from Google Maps users that the Wikipedia layer is gone.

The layer provided additional content from Wikipedia a…

I can’t remember when, but Google made a concession in the EU to provided easier access to other local search providers in their own search results. This came after a lot of pressure in the EU. But that may be live now…

Google Maps announced this week on their Google+ page that you can now use “dynamic re-routing” on your Google Maps app while you are driving with GPS directions.

Google said…

Google’s Daniel M. announced in the Google Maps Help forum that they have streamlined the process of improving the results within Google Maps.

Now when you click on “Report a problem”…

Google quietly announced in the Google Maps Help forum that the Google Maps My Places feature is now integrated into Google Maps Engine Lite.

Abby D…

Remember, Google acquired Waze, the awesome user generated mapping software company…

Google has quietly announced in the Google Business Help forums that they have begun automatically upgrading some Google Places listings to the new Google+ pages with the added social features…

A Google Business Help thread has one business owner complaining that someone else registered his business listing within Google Places and he has no access to make changes…

Google quietly announced on Google+ that they have added “location sharing” features to Google Maps for Android.

This was expected since Google Latitude died and was being shut down…