These days, using a map app on your mobile phone is not just for looking up directions to specific destinations. Depending on whether the map service you use offers it, you may also have the ability ...

If you're a fan of Google Maps, you might remember the functionality that it once offered called My Maps. With this handy feature, you could effectively pin spots of interest on a map to help plan a ...

Google Maps is the most used navigation app with over twenty million downloads worldwide. One of the reasons it’s so popular is the pin-dropping feature, which allows you to quickly mark locations on ...

Dropping a pin to highlight a location is a key feature of the Google Maps experience. Yet it's easy to lose track of that pin. Especially when you're using the Android or iPhone version of the app.

You can drop a pin on your iPhone by pressing and holding your finger down on any blank space in the Maps app. Once you've dropped your pin, you can share it, get directions to that location, or save ...

Stephen is a managing editor at Android Police, where he helps people find words that are good, and put them in orders that are good, too. Most of the time those words tell people about the latest ...

If you have a lot of saved places, Google Maps can look a bit unwieldy with all those pins, and the app is now testing using small dots to address that. At the moment, pins — stars, flags, hearts, etc ...

Google is updating its ad business to help marketers take advantage of the millions of searches being performed on mobile. The most notable change will arrive on Google Maps, which will allow ...

Pins are a convenient Google Maps feature that allows you to save a location. You can drop a pin to save an address or mark a location if it doesn’t have an address or if the address is incorrect.