With more than 1 billion people using the app every month to navigate their surroundings, Google Maps is one of the most popular smartphone apps out there. Most of that Google Maps use happens on ...

A simple edit to the URL for a Google Map can get you a closer look than what Google allows via its zoom-in button. First, find a spot on Google Maps and zoom in as far as the “+” button above the ...

The developers of the Poison Maps app figured out a new way to implement 3D Touch that goes above and beyond what we’re used to seeing. They use two patent-pending gestures called “context zooming” ...

July 14, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you've been hanging out in Google Maps at all this week, you may have stumbled onto the zoom feature added to ...

iOS/Android: You probably know you can pinch to zoom in and out on Google Maps, but there's another, less intuitive shortcut that's more suited for one hand use. All you need to do is double tap on ...

Ever wish you could zoom in ever farther using Google Maps? Well, with a tiny bit of URL tweaking you can, provided the area you’re looking at has big enough images. Check it: Select a location and ...