All news on the topic: Google Maps

Image of man leaning into boot of a car on a street in northern Spain helps lead police to make two arrests

In an ideal world, tech should be used to make our lives easier, and keep us safe.

Shelby Easler followed Google Maps instructions to take a faster way out of Las Vegas but soon ended up on a road to nowhere in the middle of a huge dust storm

Steve Hofstetter was battling with his neighbour for months as he kept deliberately blocking him into his driveway. But after a while Steve snapped, and sought petty revenge…

A grieving widow is taking on Google in a legal battle, after her husband Philip Paxson drove off a bridge which collapsed over a decade ago - because he was following the app's directions in Hickory, North Carolina

The husband was planning a route but what he didn't expect to see was his wife sitting on a bench and cuddling another man - who wasn't him

Colin Thomas now faces having to demolish his extension and decking after canny planners caught him trying to pull a fast one on them

'The picture is literally worth a thousand words'

Suggestions that it could be home to a fascist hideaway likely pay homage to the popular online conspiracy theory that the Nazis survived after the war in a hidden base in Antarctica

An eerie clip of an abandoned fairground in Chernobyl, Ukraine, has gone viral online after a TikTok user spotted a mysterious figure lurking around on Google Maps

A savvy internet user spotted a strange 'QR code' over the East River in New York when exploring the world on Google Maps - but he is yet to figure out what it means

Protect your privacy by managing location settings, removing location data from photos, and disabling tracking features in Google Photos and Maps