Google Maps
Immersive Navigation: availability & limits
Check the Immersive Navigation launch date, current documented 3D-building controls, availability limits, and how to identify a missing or different Maps view.
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A field guide to the map in your hands
Practical Google Maps, My Maps and Earth guides
Practical help for Google Maps, My Maps and Google Earth. Find your next step, from everyday journeys to classroom discoveries.
Search guidesFind a tool, task or questionWhat would you like to do?
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essentials
Get to know your tools
One place to start. More places to go.
Plan journeys, save places and manage your everyday map settings.
- Use Ask Maps and check its answers
- Add and reorder multiple stops
- Share live location—and stop sharing
Build custom maps, work with files and share a map you made.
Start with Google My Maps
Explore past imagery, terrain and the globe on the web, desktop or phone.
Start with Google EarthBring the world into class
Big ideas.
Real places.
Turn a map into a question, a lesson or a student project. Start with a teaching workflow and follow it through.
Explore classroom mappingA wider view
Maps & Earth reports
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Trump says Google declined his Atlantic Ocean name-change request
Trump says Sundar Pichai declined an Atlantic Ocean naming request. Read what he said, what remains unconfirmed and how Google explains regional map labels.
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Why Equal Earth maps look different
Understand the UN’s September 2026 map vote, compare Equal Earth with Mercator, and choose a projection for the classroom question.
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