Google Maps

Google Maps provides maps, place information and directions through its official website and apps. Users can search for a destination, explore an area and examine the transport options shown for a route. It is useful for planning a journey and finding a place's published location, with individual businesses supplying their current service details.

Google Maps brings place discovery and geographic information together with navigation-related tools. A place record and a route serve different purposes: one helps identify a destination, while the other relates it to a journey. The information attached to the chosen place or route is useful context when deciding which result answers the original enquiry.

It is useful when a place or journey needs to be connected with route, service or geographic information. Its focus includes Maps and places, Directions and Location and route exploration, helping a traveller identify which part of the service addresses the actual location and movement question involved.