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Soon after announcing refreshed rewards and levels for its Local Guides programme on Google Maps, the company has updated its beloved Maps app with another feature which lets users share their location in real-time with their friends. This feature ca

Mapping apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and many others have made it easier to commute both intracity, intercity or across the continent. But have you gotten sick of the lady telling you where to go and want someone else to? How about having the

Here is an unconventional way to please the wanderlust in you and it’s completely free to use too. Say hello to Sightsmap, a crowdsourced online mapping website which turns the world map into a heat map depicting the most hip spots. This heat map

Navigation devices and navigation apps on smartphones have changed the way we find places. As long as the place you are going is mapped, you can usually find the correct route pretty easily. Even if it isn’t located on the map you are using, it of

Contrary to other great features introduced by Apple to the iPhone before, 3D Touch has not been as widely embraced by users of the latest iPhones. And while almost all of Apple’s own apps offer some implementation of 3D Touch, all

There are a lot of amazing places in the world. Realistically speaking, you’ll never see most of them. Yeah, that’s a downer. But thanks to the wonderful thing you carry around in your pocket called the smartphone, now you can – virtually.

It won’t be a stretch to call Google Maps one of the most significant innovations that Google has build. I certainly use it a whole lot, even though I’ve lived in the same city throughout my years. In a new city that I’m visiting, it’s indisp

Apple Maps and Google Maps are both pretty extensive mapping apps. And Google Maps actually works. But neither of the apps let you customize a map of your own. Yes, you can star places and drop pins but nothing more than that.

Traditional mapping apps like Apple Maps, Google Maps, or MapQuest can all warn you of heavy traffic on certain roads, but they don’t necessarily go much further than that. The reality is traffic can make or break someone’s day. GPS navigati

If you tend to have tons of appointments and meetings that take most of your day, then your iPhone or iPad Calendar app must be one of the apps you spend time on the most. Here is a trick to make it a lot easier for you to see not only your even

Google Maps is the king of mobile maps and navigation, no doubt about that. But it’s shocking how ill-equipped it is for the offline world. Yes, you can save a part of the map for offline use, but that’s it. You can’t download maps for a whole

I was in New Delhi last month and the place I was staying was a labyrinth of old and new buildings. The paths were so narrow, a hatchback could hardly make it through (though that didn’t stop my fellow Indians with the can-do spirit).

Of what little time I’ve spent at the airport, it’s never been a particularly joyous affair. Airports suck.

Thanks to Google Maps and countless other apps, we take maps and location services for granted.

Google Maps update 3.0 for Android and iOS is one of the biggest updates to the Maps app ever. The update introduces ground-breaking features like Lane Guidance in navigation, a feature that was once exclusive to expensive GPS trackers from the

Google Maps Street View has introduced a cool new feature, one which allows you to travel through time (virtually, of course). Basically, you’re able to check out available imagery of a place at various moments in time.

Nokia X comes with its own suite of apps instead of Google services. While the apps do seem different from Google’s offerings, they do have their own set of advantages and disadvantages.

While we have been enjoying different maps applications on smartphones for a while now, Apple only recently integrated it own Maps app on OS X Mavericks  allowing users to have native-level access to maps right on their Macs. But there’s a

Google Maps is perhaps one of the most popular services out there with apps available on almost every device. However, since Apple implemented its own maps solution, Google Maps stopped being installed by default on iOS devices and became an option

Apple’s Maps were definitely one of the lowest points of the company when it released iOS 6 a few months back. Many users were dissatisfied with it and started looking for alternatives to the native maps app that could provide better performance