It has a neat, intuitive experience, with comprehensive, layered maps and an extensive feature set, yet it isn’t widely popular.

There are two first-party (developed by device manufacturers themselves) options outside the Android world: Bing Maps on Windows (and the Web) and Apple Maps, the default mapping service of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS.īing Maps, like Google, is aided by its search capabilities and offers a competitive mapping and navigation experience. You just need to navigate to your destination. Sometimes, though, you don’t need all that clutter. You can book cab rides, read reviews of business establishments and restaurants, look up hotels and make a booking. But Google Apps is also a local guide that ups the ante on what location-based searches can do-aided by, of course, Google’s vigour in search. It’s free, baked in on your Android smartphone, and is one of the top apps downloaded from the iPhone App Store. It ticks all the right boxes for a navigation app-with continuous updates to map data and enhance precision along the way, offering accurate ETA across all tiers of cities as well as highways. Google Maps, an excellent mapping and navigation service, has become almost a force of habit for over a billion users across the world.

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