Local info helps people make decisions on where to visit and stay, where to shop and explore, which houses to tour, and more. For example, to evaluate whether a home is in a desirable neighborhood, home buyers often switch back and forth between multiple windows–a real estate site on one window and Google Maps on […]

People everywhere use maps to help address a variety of needs, from navigating to a grocery store or seeing what restaurants are nearby, to finding the location of the nearest pharmacy. A basic map is helpful to users, but when you layer on additional context via style changes or points of interest (POIs), the map […]

Just over two years ago we launched our gaming solution to bring real-world games to life, starting with a limited group of game studios. Since then, 10 games, played by more than 11 million players each month, have been built with Google Maps Platform. But almost immediately after launch, we recognized the interest from independent […]

This month 15 years ago, just a few months after the Google Maps website rolled out in 2005, we launched the Google Maps API. We quickly saw an explosion of what were then called Google Maps ”mashups”–when a developer mashed together a specific dataset with a Google map and placed the resulting map and data […]

Cutting-edge technological innovation will be a key component to overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaggle—the world’s largest community of data scientists, with nearly 5 million users—is currently hosting multiple data science challenges focused on helping the medical community to better understand COVID-19, with the hope that AI can help scientists in their quest to beat the […]