The navigation app incorporates artificial intelligence and cameras to offer more precise guidance.

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Mobile navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze have become incredibly popular, and almost everybody uses them. There's a good explanation for this. Everybody owns a phone, and running them behind ...

User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices. According to Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist, the reason users encounter ...

Yesterday’s introduction of the Google Maps Navigation service was seen by many as the death of standalone GPS. That isn’t true and rumors of the death have been greatly exaggerated. Consider the ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...

User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices, say industry voices. According to Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist, the ...

When you really think about it, the idea of taking a road trip for a weekend without direction guidance from a GPS system isn't that radical. After all, it was the norm just 15 years ago, before GPS ...

Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates ...