Google Maps is adding a new Aerial button that simplifies switching from Street View to Satellite View. Check it out ahead of its release!

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Google Maps is getting three new features intended to help you coordinate your plans like checking out a landmark without leaving your house or keeping tabs on your friends locations at a festival.

Users can switch back to Street View at any time, the outlet reported. According to the news outlet, Aerial view even remembers which direction you're facing in Street View when you transition to ...

Google's 3D "immersive view" isn't completely ready, but you can get a glimpse of it starting today. The company is rolling out updates to Google Maps for Android and iOS that introduce aerial views ...

With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking to go beyond a static top-down map With new features like Immersive View and search with Live View, Google’s looking ...

You know those moments where you learn a piece of mind-blowing information that makes you feel like your entire life was a lie? Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor has sent the internet into panic mode ...

Practically anyone who works in an office setting and has to answer to layers of management can sympathize with a certain kind of bureaucracy. The kind where good ideas have to confront the harsh ...

Google Maps has been a core part of Android Auto since Android Auto was created, as you’d expect. But one of the big features that many people use on the mobile app, has been missing, until now. And ...

At I/O in May, Google announced a 3D immersive view for Maps that would let you see the world in a whole new way. As a first step toward it, the company is rolling out “photorealistic aerial views” of ...

There's more evidence that just ignoring your eccentric boss' bad ideas is the best way to deal with them. The co-creator of Google Maps and current Salesforce president Bret Taylor decided that Feb.