Google Maps

Google LLC

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About this app

Navigate your world faster and easier with Google Maps. Over 220 countries and territories mapped and hundreds of millions of businesses and places on the map. Get real-time GPS navigation, traffic, and transit info, and explore local neighborhoods by knowing where to eat, drink and go - no matter what part of the world you’re in.

Get there faster with real-time updates
• Beat traffic with real-time ETAs and traffic conditions
• Catch your bus, train, or ride-share with real-time transit info
• Save time with automatic rerouting based on live traffic, incidents, and road closures

Discover places and explore like a local
• Discover local restaurant, events, and activities that matter to you
• Know what’s trending and new places that are opening in the areas you care about
• Decide more confidently with “Your match,” a number on how likely you are to like a place
• Group planning made easy. Share a shortlist of options and vote in real-time
• Create lists of your favorite places and share with friends
• Follow must-try places recommended by local experts, Google, and publishers
• Review places you’ve visited. Add photos, missing roads and places.

More experiences on Google Maps
• Offline maps to search and navigate without an internet connection
• Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, shops, museums and more
• Indoor maps to quickly find your way inside big places like airports, malls and stadiums

* Some features not available in all countries

* Also available for Wear OS. Add a Tile on your Wear OS watch to quickly access home and work.

* Navigation isn't intended to be used by oversized or emergency vehicles

Ratings and reviews

For some reason developers think unlock phone means "please zoom out to the state level" when you're 99% of the way to the destination and now walking there expecting to see a street level map. There's no reason for this decision, zooming out when you're over 90% of the way there helps no one, but this annoyance remains. Manually zooming in each time after unlock is an enormous pain when that code doesn't need to exist to begin with.

Google Maps works enough of the time that you can be fooled into trusting it, but fails often enough that you will be burned by that trust. It is rarely factually wrong, but it will give lots of bad advice, like not recognizing dead-end streets or expecting drivers to be able to make 4 instantaneous lane changes in a 100 foot length of congested traffic, every time. Recently, instead of a bus route directly to my destination, it took me on the next closest route... 20 minutes of walking away.

Used to be the greatest navigation app on the planet. I'm not sure what happened, but now it's one of the most frustrating parts of my day. Constantly have to restart it, it says I've arrived when I'm still blocks away, and always tries to take me down alleys to get to my destinations. I'm assuming it's probably just a profits over functionality thing and it definitely shows that the company doesn't care about the users.

What's new

Thanks for using Google Maps! This release brings bug fixes that improve our product to help you discover new places and navigate to them.

Become a beta tester: http://goo.gl/vLUcaJ