Google Maps is easily one of the must-have mobile apps that you need to install when setting up a new phone, whether it's iPhone or Android. It'll help do more for you than help navigate your ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Google Maps is making it a whole lot easier to find out exactly how far apart any two (or more) ...

Last month, I closed this column with a script that can return latitude/longitude values for two addresses, with the intent ultimately being to have the script calculate the distance between those two ...

An underrated feature in Google Maps is the ability to measure the distance between two or more points. It can aid tremendously with planning, whether you’re aiming to walk or go on a road trip.

Google Earth allows you to measure the distance between two points on the Earth, as well as the circumference of a circular section of the ground — or even the elevation of a mountain. But in order to ...