Google is launching a major update to its Google Maps API platform for developers today — and it’s also giving it a new name: the Google Maps Platform. This is one of the biggest changes to the ...

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

A street view in Google Maps (click to zoom). When Google announced last year that its popular Google Maps service would no longer be provided free of charge to websites that consistently served more ...

A rich ecosystem of free maps, free data and free libraries give developers excellent alternatives to Google Maps A long time ago, when Web 2.0 was just Web 1.0, we had to ask people for directions, ...

Google Maps is rolling out a new feature, specifically for developers, which could see a rise in map-based AI apps and tools. This update will allow developers (and anyone with some coding experience) ...

For years, Google Maps has been the default platform. Still, its pricing structure has prompted many tech teams, from Seattle’s thriving startups to emerging hubs across the Pacific Northwest, to seek ...

Google has updated its Google Maps SDK for iOS to version 1.1, opening up its API to all third-party developers who now have the ability to build iOS apps with Google Maps embedded. The update also ...

Game developers can now use Google Maps APIs to design their augmented reality games. Google has integrated the Unity game engine into Google Maps, making it incredibly easy for developers to create ...

Google is adding a new feature for third-party developers building atop its Gemini AI models that rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and the growing array of Chinese open source options ...