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South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional

South Korea approved Google's request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.

Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names

Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users.

Google Maps and Tripadvisor block users from posting reviews to some listings in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus after activists used them to share Ukraine news

Google and Tripadvisor block users from posting new reviews to some listings in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus after people used them to share news about Ukraine

Alphabet Inc.'s Google Maps and the travel search platform Tripadvisor Inc. temporarily blocked users from posting new reviews …

Google Maps is removing newly added user content, like pins, in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, amid claims of its use in coordinating Russian military activity

Responding to claims that its Maps were being used to coordinate Russian military activity in Ukraine, Google …

Google Maps temporarily stops displaying live traffic and “busy area” data in Ukraine, but basic traffic navigation is still available

Google Maps has temporarily disabled some of its tools for Ukraine following the Russian military's invasion of the country, a spokesperson confirmed Sunday.

UK researchers are using Google's mobile location data collected from apps like Google Maps to help track and predict the spread of COVID-19 across Europe

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Survey of over 1,000 US consumers: 77% say they use Google Maps when searching for information on nearby businesses, while 38% use Facebook and 35% use Yelp

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