GPS tracking is one of those things whose importance you only realize when disaster strikes. GPS tracking apps for Android have been around for ages, and they’ve only improved since then. Nowadays, ...

The GPS app Waze wants to make commuting in snowy and icy conditions less cumbersome for drivers. On Tuesday, the app that's owned by Google began rolling out a new "Snow Warning" tool that notifies ...

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 ...

Originally posted in the Android Developers Blog, the following is reprinted with permission from authors Frank van Diggelen, principal engineer, and Jennifer Wang, product manager, Google. At Android ...

Android phones aren’t the only handsets that have access to a free, full-featured GPS application. Nokia on Thursday announced that it will make the premium version of Ovi Maps, which includes turn-by ...

Google Maps has long been the favored GPS app, guiding drivers fairly accurately for decades, and then Waze mixed things up ...

Relying on your Google Pixel 8’s GPS for navigation can be incredibly convenient until it suddenly stops working. There are several reasons why your GPS might malfunction, including software glitches, ...

If Android Auto navigation apps, be they Google Maps or Waze, lose tracking all of a sudden, there’s a good chance the whole thing comes down to a GPS problem that others are struggling with as well.

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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 ...

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