Google announced today that it is opening access to more contributors to participate in Road Mapper, a tool where you can add missing roads to Google Maps in areas of the world that need it most.

"This 'old-school' approach to an international road trip was more interesting, reliable and fun than depending upon Google Maps," she says. The map is currently tucked away in a box with other ...

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 ...

And with this tool, you can actually see an entire video of your map route, based on street view snapshots. Software developer Brian Folts has the tool up on his site, and it’s easy and impressive.

Idalia made landfall at about 7:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday near Keaton Beach in Florida's Big Bend, a densely forested and rural region. The storm came ashore southeast of Tallahassee as a Category 3 ...

A cool free tool creates a heat map of your Google Maps movement data in no time at all. By Hans-Christian Dirscherl. Managing Editor, PC-WELT Jul 18, 2023 7:18 am PDT.