What is Google Maps?
{{About|the mapping service|the mobile application|Google Maps (application)}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use American English|date=December 2022}} {{Infobox website | name = Google Maps | logo = Google Maps Logo.svg | type = [[Web mapping]] | language_count = 74 | language = Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German (Germany), Estonian, English (United States), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Basque, Filipino, French (France), Galician, Croatian, Zulu, Icelandic, Italian, Swahili, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Uzbek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Albanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Amharic, Nepali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Lao, Burmese, Khmer, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese | owner = [[Google]] | url = {{official URL}} | commercial = Yes | registration = Optional, included with a [[Google Account]] | launch_date = {{start date and age|2005|2|8}} | current_status = Active | programming_language = [[C++]] (back-end), [[JavaScript]], [[XML]], [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] (UI) }} '''Google Maps''' is a [[map]]ping website from [[Google]], and also the name for the [[technology]] that it works on. It provides [[satellite (artificial)|satellite]] pictures and [[road map]]s for anywhere in the world. Google Maps also shows the locations of many [[wikt:place|places]] and [[business]]es (called [[point of interest|points of interest]]). It can provide [[street address]]es, [[phone number]]s, and [[URL]]s to their websites. It can generate directions between different places using many ways of [[transport]], such as by [[car]], [[bike]], [[public transport]], and even by [[airplane|air]], and show [[traffic congestion]]. Maps can be embedded on other