After a series of spam attacks and other obscene edits, Google has temporarily taken its crowdsourced map editing tool Map Maker offline. The online tool has, for years, allowed those in countries ...

Since 2008, Google has run an online tool called Map Maker that allows anyone worldwide to contribute data to Google Maps. Now, that tool is shutting down. The company announced today in its online ...

If you’re a visual person who likes to be able to see all of the destinations you have traveled to, Google makes it easy. The user-friendly tool, Location History Visualizer, creates a digital heat ...

One of the great things about Google maps is it has its roots in XML. To translate for the non-web developers out there, it basically means Google maps are user hackable. This how-to will show you how ...

How did Google map the whole country? Did they drive every road? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the ...

Google Location History, introduced in 2009, logs users’ locations through their smartphones. Location History was designed to be helpful, and Google is able to provide a better service to its users ...

Map of the Dead is a Google Maps overlay that highlights places for scavenging, dangerous “hot zones,” and other locations that could be useful in a zombie apocalypse. Map of the Dead is a Google Maps ...