Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

There’s something about the pull of the great outdoors that seeps into your bones. You start off slow, maybe for a walk in the woods near your house. But soon, that call of the wild has you gearing up ...

A new product called Compass Stone has arrived on Kickstarter, and it's looking to change the way we use our phones for GPS navigation. The idea behind Compass Stone is simple: people should be ...

After initially removing the compass within Maps on Android way back in early 2019, Google has now restored the much-loved feature after fan pressure. The little floating compass widget was ...

In a support post, Google said it has decided to bring back the compass due to "overwhelming support" for the feature. Google has announced that it is bringing back the compass widget within Maps on ...

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Unless users opt out, the default route will be the “eco-friendly” one if comparable options take about the same time, Google said. After a two-year disappearance, the compass on the Google Maps ...