Google today announced the launch of Google My Maps, the company’s new tool for creating custom Google Maps from directly within Google Drive. Announced today, the tool makes it easy to create new ...

A little-known system called My Maps has just been updated by Google for Google Maps. What you're able to do – and what I'll be showing you here – is take what Google has made with Google Maps and add ...

A KML file is a file that represent the locations and shapes of places on our planet Earth. Businesses and researchers use them to track points of interest, from potential store locations to the ...

Like many of Google’s local/mapping products, My Maps has had a … let’s call it a “checkered” history. It’s been heavily promoted and then seemingly ignored. It’s been renamed (to “My Places”) and had ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...