Remember how, if you wanted to measure distance between two places, you’d have to either a) spend the next half hour searching the App Store for a non-hideous free app that wouldn’t be too frustrating ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Thanks to Google Maps’ new measurement tool, this reporter now knows his ...

Measuring geodesic distance—that's distance as the crow flies, or the literal shortest route between two points—on Google Maps long required an oddly analog approach: You looked at the map’s scale and ...

Want to know the straight distance between two points on Google Maps, without resorting to driving directions and figuring out location names? Google Maps just added a Labs feature that provides ...

Google released an update to Google Earth today that allows you to measure the distance between two locations or the square feet of an area. Now when you get into an argument with a friend about how ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Google Earth is getting a new Measure tool today that will let you — you guessed it — measure the distance and area of things on the map. With the tool, users can measure the distance between two ...

I suddenly got the idea of re-coating a garage roof while at Yorktowne Roofing & Siding Inc., but I hadn't taken any measurements for square footage of coverage so I used this free handy Android app ...

Google brought back a fun feature in Google Maps that was not yet available in the new version of Google Maps - the ability to draw lines on Google Maps and figure out the distance of that drawing on ...

Forget hunting for a tape measure or a protractor. Use your Android phone camera and sensors to handle different types of measurements easily.

The Disto A8 is a handheld laser distance-measuring tool with a built-in digital viewfinder and tilt sensor. The viewfinder provides three zoom levels and nine brightness settings, making it easy to ...