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Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

Google Maps is getting sharper satellite imagery and more Street View content, while Google Earth will soon let users access more historical imagery. Starting this week, Google is introducing sharper ...

Google Maps could soon add a new “Aerial” button to Street View. The Aerial button will allow for a quick and seamless transition to Satellite View and back. The Aerial button even remembers the ...

At I/O in May, Google announced a 3D immersive view for Maps that would let you see the world in a whole new way. As a first step toward it, the company is rolling out “photorealistic aerial views” of ...

Google's 3D "immersive view" isn't completely ready, but you can get a glimpse of it starting today. The company is rolling out updates to Google Maps for Android and iOS that introduce aerial views ...

With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking to go beyond a static top-down map With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking ...

Google Maps now allows you to view your favorite global landmarks from a 3D perspective. Although the three-dimensional immersive view is not entirely complete at the moment, you can now check the ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. The new feature brings all of the information that a ...