Those of you who have found the new Google Maps lacking may have reason to give it another chance. Starting today, Google will be rolling out a variety of new (and new-old) features designed to ...

McCracken’s Law of Software Mascots states definitively that they’re almost always a truly lousy idea. Most of the evidence has come in the form of grating, patronizing Microsoft characters, from Bob ...

One of the most annoying things about the new Google Maps is that it is missing basic and fundamental features that makes the old Google Maps essential. One such feature is the Pegman, that lets you ...

If you've been using the new Google Maps on your computer, you may have noticed that the Pegman, the little yellow character who activates street view, is nowhere to be found. Some users took to the ...

Google today launched an update to its new Google Maps for desktop that brings traffic data from Waze to the desktop for the first time (it’s already integrated into the mobile Maps apps). This ...

Google continues to tweak the new Google Maps preview, this week adding a number of new features to the next-generation map service, including Pegman and some improvements to Street View. I'm PCMag's ...

If you go to Google Maps and look at the Pegman used for browsing street view images, you will see the Pegman is wearing a Santa hat. The Santa Pegman is not new, it was shown to us when Google had a ...

You know how Google will change their home page logo for you on your birthday? Well, now the Google Maps Pegman will put on a birthday hat, all day, on your birthday to wish you a very special ...

The campus’s new online map just keeps getting better. The Google-based map went live in September, and since then the UC Davis map team has added several new layers, highlighting, for example, ...

“Pegman” is the little icon in Google Maps that you can drag to enable the Google Street View feature. Tomorrow, he’s getting into the Christmas spirit by becoming “Santa Pegman” and sporting a Santa ...