Google Maps estimates travel time using a blend of technology and data. It calculates distance, considers speed limits, and ...

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...

Google recently updated its desktop version of Maps with a new feature that lets users measure the distance between two or more points on the map. To toggle this option, right-click on a starting ...

Remember the old song "500 Miles Away From Home"? Think of it as a challenge instead of a lament and you could come up with some good ideas for a road trip. You can do it the old-fashioned way, ...

After 10 years I think my absence of a mathematical education has finally come to hurt me in a programming setting. I need to calculate the distance between two points on Earth using a Great Circle ...

Last month, I closed this column with a script that can return latitude/longitude values for two addresses, with the intent ultimately being to have the script calculate the distance between those two ...