Google Maps has removed a route from its navigation system after a number of tourists came into danger while travelling towards one of South Africa’s most violent regions. The technology giant has ...

A high-powered Los Angeles couple is suing Google Maps for allegedly sending them to a dangerous South African neighborhood known as “Hell Run” — where they were brutally attacked at gunpoint, ...

Starting back in 2020, Google Maps and Search gained the ability to show the boundaries of nearby wildfires. Now, support for wildfire info in Google Maps and Search is expanding to more countries ...

Google allegedy failed to stop directing Google Maps users through dangerous routes in Cape Town, South Africa. The complaint in the lawsuit, filed in California, was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

Despite warnings to Google from U.S. and South African officials that Google Maps was regularly sending tourists on a route where violent thieves lay in wait to ambush them, the tech giant failed to ...