There’s one simple thing I do before every trip that’s saved me more times than I can count. While I’m gathering clothes and packing my suitcase, I always make sure to download offline maps for all ...

You can save a route in Google Maps with the "Pin" feature. Pinning a route or location lets you quickly find that route or directions to that spot again later. In the Google Maps Android app, you can ...

The company is leaning more on individual cartography contributions: Map Maker now lets people test and correct driving directions for user-added roads. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

At long last, Google has released its own iPhone maps app to compete against Apple’s homegrown version introduced with iOS 6. For three months, iPhone users have been limited to Google’s ...