Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API. Now ...

On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people who ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google today announced a massive revamp of its Google Maps business: The ...

I don't think a day goes by that I don't use Google to find something, and lately, I've seen an increasing number of businesses that post Google maps to their locations on their Web sites. Sometimes, ...

With all the hullabaloo around Apple’s efforts in the mapping realm, Google got a nice little free PR kickback for the quality of its own Maps offering. Even the most cynical of anti-Googlers would ...

Since Google published its Maps API, numerous applications, called mash-ups, have been developed that integrate customized data on top of Google’s map interface. With the Maps API, it’s ...

In my previous post I noted that Google Maps has released Version 2 of its API. In this post I thought I'd talk more about how you can start developing with Google Maps. Mashups are all the rage, so ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Geocoding is the process of mapping an address or a location name to a point on ...