The popular mapping service will tell you elevation changes on your walking route. If that sounds familiar it’s because Google introduced a similar feature for cyclists back in 2014. That version ...

Google Maps is getting a new feature called Immersive View that lets users experience a kind of drone-level aerial view of some of the world’s best-known cities. Google LLC Chief Executive Sundar ...

Google enhanced its Google Maps service by making elevation data now available for cyclists or bike enthusiasts, providing better details on what is up ahead of their bike routes. Research says the ...

Android: Google updated its Maps app with a bunch of new features today, including elevation for bicycle directions, voice actions in navigation mode, and a slide out menu for Your Places. Android ...

Perhaps you’re a truly robust cyclist, thoroughly unafraid of hills of any size, but many of us are not. (Especially those who frequently schlep one or more children in a tow-behind.) Thus, having a ...

Google has quietly added elevation data to bike routes in its Maps service, providing better intel for intrepid cyclists. The feature, which launched Friday, seems to work for much of the U.S. and ...

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Google Maps received an update today that introduces a couple of potentially useful new features, including a new section that lists notable events happening nearby. The new Events section lives at ...

The other day, Google Maps added quick facts to maps in the Google Maps search results box, and I assume, as part of that, came these new biking directions elevation profiles. Now if you do a bike ...

Thank you to GEB reader ‘DJ’ for suggesting this idea in the comments of our post on simulating lakes. It turns out that the algorithm for drawing contours given a regular array of altitude data is ...

We recently did several posts about drawing contours using altitude data from different Altitude API services. The first version used the Google Maps Elevation API and the second used Mapzen’s ...

As noted by TechCrunch, Google has recently added elevation data to bike routes in Google Maps. Google confirmed the new feature, which it left out of announcing in its big Maps updates earlier this ...