You can save a route in Google Maps with the "Pin" feature. Pinning a route or location lets you quickly find that route or directions to that spot again later. In the Google Maps Android app, you can ...

The company is leaning more on individual cartography contributions: Map Maker now lets people test and correct driving directions for user-added roads. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

Chris Pendleton announced on the Bing Maps blog that they have pushed out a major update to their driving directions “routing engine.” The new routing engine is twice as fast as the old one and adds ...

When it comes to getting driving directions these days, Google Maps is usually just a tap away on our smartphones and tablets. Today one more feature was added to Google Maps that many may be ...

Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Google hopes to make it easier for users to get from point A to ...