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Google Maps and Waze dominate the navigation world on most platforms. They are the top choices on Android but also serve as top alternatives in the Apple ecosystem, despite iPhones coming with Apple ...

Google Maps is, by far, the most popular navigation app on the planet, with a vast majority of global users using it almost daily. This is true even in the U.S., where Google Maps logged more than 25 ...

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL GOOG Google plans to combine the team working on the mapping service Waze with the group overseeing the company’s Maps product, as the search giant faces pressure to streamline ...

I’m faced with an annoying dilemma whenever I get into my car: Which of Google’s two navigation apps do I use? While Google Maps is my standard option, Waze often offers far better insights into ...

Google is reportedly merging its Maps and Waze teams. The two navigation apps will remain separate but the company will house both teams under its Geo organization, which also oversees Google Earth ...

Realising how places connect geographically causes local maps in the brain to join, forming one big map which helps with planning future journeys, finds a new UCL study. Changes like this can occur ...

Google has just announced that Google Map Maker is being retired or, to put it another way, merged into Google Maps. Google Maps has slowly been gaining features that allow users giving feedback to ...