To lock the north to the top of the screen, go to Google Maps Settings and select Navigation. Here, you can select Keep Map ...

Brown: Google Maps uses a lot of shades of brown; they can represent anything from a desert to a national park or a mountain range. Depending on the place, they will usually be labeled. Officially, ...

A recent post on X has reported that the latest Google Maps beta includes a 3D navigation toggle. Here's where to find that in your version of the app.

Google's Maps application is making headway against the No. 1 map Web site, MapQuest.

Learn how an incorrect Google Maps update turned smooth commutes into hours-long traffic jams in Italy and Austria.

A cool free tool creates a heat map of your Google Maps movement data in no time at all. You can immediately see where you spend most of your time and where you rarely go.

A town in Sardinia ordered motorists and hikers to avoid Google Maps to navigate local roads after too many people got lost and stranded by using the popular app, according to a report.

Which part of Italy has the most dangerous roads? This map of road fatalitiies by Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore paints a fairly predictable picture, showing that most deadly collisions happen in ...

GoogleMapsMania recently discovered that Google quietly added a more detailed road map for the Torino, Italy area for Google Local. What is interesting is that in Google Earth we have already had ...

Kim Komando reveals the simple trick to using Google Maps or Apple Maps when you don't have service.

Waze is quietly getting a subtle map color refresh, only a few months after Google released a similar makeover for Google Maps. The new map colors, which make it easier to distinguish the ...

Google Maps is expanding its ‘Explore around you’ feature to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Japan. The tool helps users find places to grab a meal or drink based on location and lists them ...