DENVER — Good news for National Park visitors this year – ahead of National Park Week, Google Maps is partnering with the National Park Service to roll out several new features that will make it ...

I trialed this open-source navigation app that's taking on Google Maps with a community-driven approach, and the results were interesting.

Alex Roddie takes a look at seven of the best hiking apps to help you find your way in the mountains as an additional ...

Google Maps and Apple’s Maps app offer location-based directories and other tools for finding new places to explore, before or after you hit the road. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer does not ...

A Canadian hiker who believed Google Maps would help him find the right path on Mount Fromme learned the hard way that the application does its magic only on public roads. The man was hiking from the ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

A Canadian search-and-rescue group said it had conducted two missions recently after hikers “may have sought to follow” a nonexistent trail on Google Maps. By Amanda Holpuch A search-and-rescue group ...

Google Maps has exciting details about locations around the world. One of the most valuable things to learn about an area is its elevation. You might not know where to find elevation measurements on ...