GPS technology has freed us from the tyranny of the printed, folding map. But at the same time, it has made us slaves to our cellular provider's data plan. Many of the leading GPS and mapping app ...

Travelers everywhere lean on the utility and functionality of a good map app. Maps help us to make sense of the world, and they are critically important for finding directions – whether in the city we ...

Your phone’s GPS chip works without an internet connection, but most navigation apps need data to load map tiles, calculate routes, and display points of interest. That means losing signal on a ...