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  Google Maps Doubles Down on Privacy With New On-Device Location Storage: Report

  Google Maps is bringing a big change to how it stores your location data, according to a report. It will soon enable devices to store location and timeline data locally (on-device) instead of Google Cloud, the report suggests. Furthermore, the company will also set the auto-delete feature, which automatically removes your timeline data after a cert...

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  Google Maps Redesign Brings Clutter-Free Interface for Directions Search, New Bottom Sheet Design

  Google Maps direction search interface no longer shows a full screen page when a user clicks on a transportation mode, as per a report. The company has reworked how the Direction Search UI opens in the app, ditching the full screen interface in favour of a sliding sheet layout. Additionally, Google Maps has also made upgrades to the Location interf...

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  Google Maps Shares New Features to Protect Against Fake Content, Harmful Reviews

  While Google Maps is usually a reliable way to check up information on places like restaurants, cinemas, ATM locations and other establishments, it is not immune to fake reviews and misleading content. In a bid to make Maps more robust, Google has now shared three new ways it prevents policy-violating content from being submitted.

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  Google Maps Adds Aerial Views of Landmarks, Location Sharing Notifications, More Features

  Google Maps has introduced three new features that would give a new experience to different users. Google has added photorealistic aerial views of around 100 landmarks on Google Maps and upgraded the cycling navigation with more detailed routing information. The company is also enabling location sharing notifications.

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  ISRO Joins Hands With MapmyIndia to Take on Google Maps With Homegrown Mapping Portal

  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and location and navigation technology solutions provider MapmyIndia announced an initiative to partner together to offer India's best and fully indigenous mapping portal and geospatial services.

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  Google Location-Tracking Surveillance Tactics Troubled Its Own Engineers, Unsealed Documents Show

  Google's own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn't want to be followed until a 2018 investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case.

• Reliance Jio Sending Unsecured Data, Hackers Claim; Company Denies

  China does not support Google Maps (or for that matter, any Google applications) and thus, for location based services within China, a Chinese-based mapping service is required, it said.

• Google uses oversize tricycle to film Central Park

  Using an elaborate camera system, Google Maps has begun documenting Central Park's 58 miles of pathways for online strolling. It was, in fact, Google's Trike, a panoramic camera system with nine lenses mounted on an oversize tricycle. The company, which already offers 360-degree street-level views of New York City and other cities, has turned its a...

• Germany unhappy with Google street view

  Google's plan to offer Street View photo mapping in Germany, which has bumped up against the country's strict privacy laws, has come in for renewed criticism after regulators learned that the company, a search engine giant, was also archiving the locations of household wireless networks.