Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more to ...

A WHOLE NEW WORLD. Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of Earth. That is: a more accurate one. Google recently announced that its map would now depict a round Earth, according to The Verge.

Google Maps is the undoubtedly the king of online mapping. With directions for bikers, walkers, public transit users, as well as traffic and street views, Maps can get you anywhere. Now, Google is ...

If you're looking for a bit of an escape on a Friday afternoon, you can probably get away with it thanks to some more updates to Google Maps and Earth. Google announced today that it's rolling out an ...

It might be overcast in your area of the globe, but the skies are all clear on Google Maps and Google Earth. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

Google has added fresh high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery to its mapping services for 25 cities and 72 countries. Among the imagery to get an update is the Olympic Park, London, where ...

[ Update: See this post for a KML to view to see the NOAA imagery in Google Earth. ] Yesterday we had a look at some aerial imagery of the eastern coast of the US after Hurricane Matthew. The imagery ...

A new study has, for the first time, estimated the total volume ofgroundwater present on the Earth. The results show that we're usingup the water supply quicker than it can be naturally replaced, ...

There’s something comforting about a map with “You are here” marked on it, but not when the arrow points to a spot where giant asteroids are whizzing by like cannon balls in a pirate movie. NASA has ...