Click in the Search along the route box at the top of the map to look for tourist attractions, hotels, gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, or whatever you need. You can browse the list of results and click Add stop next to anything that’s of interest—your route then gets modified accordingly.

Google Maps is starting to roll out integration with Waze, the open source incident, accident and roadworks app. It'll make Maps even better. As Google promised this summer, it's bringing incident reporting from the Waze traffic information app to Maps – and that integration has finally begun.

Google quietly published an explanation on how it uses third-party dashcam images to monitor changing speed limits and more. Here's what to know