If you’re a visual person who likes to be able to see all of the destinations you have traveled to, Google makes it easy. The user-friendly tool, Location History Visualizer, creates a digital heat ...

I’m a sucker for anything that takes text data and turns it into something visual. This week I came across Location History Visualizer, a tool that creates a heat map using your Google Location ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For a couple of years, Google has offered its real-time Hot Trends list, ...

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this ...

Google has rolled out its Project Sunroof tool nationwide. Plug in your address to see if your roof gets enough sunlight to go solar. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops ...

Since 2008, Google has run an online tool called Map Maker that allows anyone worldwide to contribute data to Google Maps. Now, that tool is shutting down. The company announced today in its online ...