It's about to get a lot easier to toggle between Street View and Satellite View on Google Maps on Android — and it's coming via an Aerial View button. Android Authority, which activated the button ...

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.

Google Maps could soon add a new “Aerial” button to Street View. The Aerial button will allow for a quick and seamless transition to Satellite View and back. The Aerial button even remembers the ...

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Google Maps' Immersive View is now officially launched. The newest feature comes a bit late as it was promised to release in late 2022. Despite this, Immersive View debuted in five cities across three ...

Many people use Google Maps only for its navigation component, but the application can do a lot more, especially in terms of world exploration. Street View remains an incredible tool to discover the ...

I discovered Google Maps Immersive View by accident looking for directions to a new place in the city and now I can't stop ...

An intriguing new feature has been added to Google Maps to explore select cities as if you were a bird flying through the sky. Dubbed Immersive View, the feature utilizes Google’s satellite images 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 ...

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 ...

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.