Most people who use navigation apps, be they Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps, are typically interested in the fastest route. It doesn’t matter how long it is as long as it's the fastest way to arrive ...

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Scientists at London's Imperial College have built a miniature tourist map that could lead to a revolutionary generation of computers. The team etched a map of London's city centre on to a 1sq in ...

Millions of drivers rely on Google Maps and Waze every day for a simple reason: they find faster ways to reach their destinations, mainly because they're aware of what happens on the road ahead.

Measuring geodesic distance—that's distance as the crow flies, or the literal shortest route between two points—on Google Maps long required an oddly analog approach: You looked at the map’s scale and ...