Hooray for Google adding bicycling directions to Google Maps — too bad it isn’t more useful. I’m not sure this is Google’s fault, however, as many bike routes/lanes/paths are poorly documented and ...

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Google Maps has recently added a number of cycling features as more people have taken to riding bikes, ebikes, and electric scooters during the coronavirus pandemic. And yet as much as I appreciate ...

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Google Maps will soon roll out Immersive View for routing, an AI-powered fly-through preview service. Immersive View for iconic buildings is already live and allows 3D scroll-arounds of Big Ben in ...

Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things — wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning ...

As part of Sustainable with Google 2021, the company today announced a slew of features across its products that let you make “more sustainable choices.” In Google Maps, this involves launching ...

Like many countries during the pandemic, when people were feeling cooped up indoors, the U.S. had a bit of a bicycling boom. In 2020, bicycle sales were up by 46% from the year before, and U.S. roads ...