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Google Maps Utilises AI For Immersive View Tool

The use of AI by Google Maps utilised for launch of Immersive View tool, so users can preview their travel routes

Google sued by family after father was allegedly directed by Google Maps off collapsed US bridge and to his death

Worrying sign for Waze? Six months after Alphabet merged its Waze and Google Maps teams, comes news of Waze layoffs

CEO of Waze to depart Google after confirmation Waze and Google Maps teams will merge, as standalone Waze app to remain

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Satnav giant TomTom says it will “reset” the organisation, which unfortunately includes hundreds of job losses at its Mapping unit

Disruption means receivers are not picking up usable signals 'until futher notice', reportedly due to a fault at a ground station in Italy

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Seventeen years in the planning, delayed and over budget, but 2016 witnesses the arrival of Europe's answer to the GPS system

A product resulting from the Cold War, the GPS system has transformed people's lives and indeed journeys

Google has flexed its financial muscle and snapped up Waze, which had also been courted by Apple and Facebook

Sales of dedicated navigation devices are being badly squeezed by the growing use of mobile navigation apps

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To aid the Black Friday and Christmas shopping spree, Google has released indoor maps of selected worldwide locations

Sensewhere has launched a self-correcting global positioning system (GPS) – that works indoors

CSR has developed a 'breakthrough' chip that it says can even work indoors, and tell what floor you are on

Microsoft has revealed that its answer to Google's controversial StreetView is soon to arrive in the UK

Brits are "dangerously over-reliant" on satellite navigation systems, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering