In this affluent Minnesota city, privately owned streets keep Google Street View out, showcasing the intersection of modern tech and community privacy.

Most of us rely on navigation apps to get where we need to go. There are countless options out there, but Google Maps remains the most popular. Does your smartphone or computer default to an app you ...

Street View, Google Map’s real world look at locations across the world is now available in the web browser for iPhone and iPad users. This new move makes it easier to use the Google Maps webpage to ...

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One of the most interesting and useful Google Maps innovations is Street View, a system that allows users to see realistic 360-degree imagery of streets, buildings, and landmarks in all their ...

We’re more than two years in with street-level photography, although Google was the only game in town for most of that time among the majors. There were also less-well-known independents such as ...

Singular photographs are great tools for sharing a memory, but Google’s photo sphere technology does a little bit more to help recreate an experience. Built in to most current Android phones, photo ...