Google has just announced that it is lowering Maps API usage fees and simplifying limits for both Styled and regular maps. The new online pricing structure dropped from $4 per 1,000 map loads to 50 ...

DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced a new product focused on the growing ...

Bad news, map hackers; the Google Maps free ride may be coming to and end. The Google Geo Developers blog recently detailed some changes to Google Maps API, including new rate limits and fees.

A Kenyan start-up creates and sells interactive maps of political and environmental data After last year’s record floods ravaged Thailand, developer and entrepreneur Vachara Aemavat had an idea for ...

An in depth comparison of the development frameworks behind Apple's Maps and Google's finds pros and cons in both, but highlights Apple's as more mature, less limited and recommended for most third ...

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...

A new set of two API releases for developers will soon have 3rd party apps working with Google Maps features that will allow them to be location aware – with location information not just relegated to ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

A street view in Google Maps (click to zoom). When Google announced last year that its popular Google Maps service would no longer be provided free of charge to websites that consistently served more ...

The public reaction to Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps application has been visceral thus far. There have been numerous complaints about Maps taking people to the wrong locations, directing them to businesses ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...