Google on Thursday launched a beta Places API for iOS, which should allow future apps with location sharing to use actual place names, instead of latitude and longitude. The application programming ...

Google Play Service’s Location APIs give you an easy way of displaying the user’s current location, but there’s only so much value you can get out of a “You Are Here”-style marker on a Google Map! The ...

When you tell someone where you are in the world, you rarely give out your longitude and latitude (unless your name is Walter White). That's because you probably don't know it, can't find it, or just ...

Google has launched its Places API for Android and opened a beta program for it on iOS today. It will allow developers to add better location pickers to their apps, so users can specify where they are ...

At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level. Sure, Latitude had been around for a while, but everyone knew that Google ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Geocoding is the process of mapping an address or a location name to a point on ...