Google has announced a new mode called Terrain for Google Maps which lets you see relief maps of 3D terrain. This is a very useful mode if you are going hiking, mountain biking, skiing, etc. in rough ...

Want a better Google Maps experience? Enabling this small feature and your journeys could start instantly feeling the benefits ...

Google Maps has gone another step toward becoming a web-based Google Earth, adding a new terrain view. As the name implies, the terrain view, which replaces the old hybrid view, lets you look at ...

Google Maps continues to crank out the updates; the default map view has been updated with new shading detail to convey terrain information, along with color gradations to depict vegetation and labels ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks that today's computer maps of the Earth are inaccurate for its needs. So it recently awarded a grant to a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Google released several big updates this week, and the update for Maps went a little under the radar. But there’s one feature in the new Maps 8.1 that totally makes it worth it, if you frequently ...

Lockheed Martin’s Hydra Fusion Tools drone software now enables drones to form three dimensional terrain maps as they fly, providing real-time tactical information and mapping data for conflict or ...