Google Maps

Through its Maps app, Google has access to a monster trove of daily traffic data – and it's using it to provide cities with free, AI-optimized traffic signal timing suggestions that could reduce stop/starts by 30% and intersection emissions by 10%.

Google has teamed up with Jaguar Land Rover to build its first ever all-electric Street View vehicle which is now being rolled out in Dublin, where it will also collect data on air quality over the coming 12 months.

GPS doesn't work underwater, which means that keeping track of a submersible's whereabouts can be difficult. A new ROV (remotely operated vehicle) still manages to show up on Google Maps, however – plus it has a cool rotating head.

It has been years since Google’s influential Street View left the roads and began to map everything from shopping centers to hiking trails. The device that made this happen was called the Street View Trekker, and Google just revealed an updated model.

Google Maps is getting better all the time, and today its utility expands even further with a new feature built specifically to help wheelchair users better navigate public transit routes.

​​Last year Google introduced an update to Google Earth that allowed users to explore the mapping software in virtual reality. Now it is bringing Street View to Earth VR so that headset-wearing folks can have a gander at ground level. ​

New research has revealed how scammers are gaming Google Maps by setting up fake pins and locations, with Google now taking steps to preserve the integrity of its venerable online mapping service, claiming to have reduced these fake listings by 70 percent. ​

​You ​would​ have been on time, but you couldn't find parking. Sound familiar? To help you avoid these types of snafus, Google is adding a parking difficulty icon to its Maps app for Android, which indicates potential problems in metro areas.

A British coder has bodged together a virtual reality cycle tour from one end of the UK to the other, using a Gear VR headset, an exercise bike, and panoramic images from Google Street View. He's halfway through the world's first long distance VR bike ride.

For those unable to see New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in person, an online visit may be the next best thing. Google recently added the iconic museum to Street View, enabling users to virtually walk through the rotunda and check out selected artworks.

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has been expanded to include things like coral reefs, hiking trails and the Amazon River. In its latest "off-road" adventure, however, Google Maps used miniaturized Street View cameras to visually map a model railway.

This week, Google announced a new Street View feature. If there's a clock in the upper left-hand corner of an image, it means you can see what that scene looked like up to seven years ago.