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Mobile navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze have become incredibly popular, and almost everybody uses them. There's a good explanation for this. Everybody owns a phone, and running them behind ...

Want to really annoy someone who relies on Google Maps for satellite navigation? Researchers have come up with a novel way of stealthily sending people in the wrong direction, using $250 of equipment ...

Getting a solid GPS location in a city can be tough thanks to all the tall buildings. Skyscrapers reflect the GPS signal and can make your location data go crazy, but now, Google says it can correct ...

We wondered if makers of GPS navigation apps and systems should worry about Google’s rumored efforts toward free turn-by-turn nav just the other day. And guess what–it’s all true, and Tom Tom, Navigon ...

Even if everything navigation is pointing in the direction of GPS, you'll never tear some folks away from their paper maps. In Northern New Jersey, Stephanie Kivett Ohnegian keeps an atlas in her car ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...