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Google Maps is not the device that we use solely to go from location A to location B. From seeing our streets in actual world-like view to remembering the place we parked our automotive, Google has added lots of helpful options to the Maps in the previous few years. Google is now including three extra options to the Maps that may change the way in which you employ the app in your smartphone.
1. Aerial View
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Beginning with the brand new options, Google is including photorealistic aerial views of the world’s 100 hottest landmarks in cities equivalent to Barcelona, London, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo to the Maps. The characteristic permits customers to get a 3D aerial view of many fashionable landmarks. That is Google’s first effort to convey an ‘immersive view expertise’ to its customers. Google defines immersive expertise as an expertise that pairs AI with billions of high-definition Avenue View, satellite tv for pc, and aerial imagery.
Whereas it might appear not-so-useful at first, Aerial View will come in helpful in a lot of conditions. Say you might be planning a visit with your pals and you might be considering of going to a specific location. Utilizing Aerial View, it is possible for you to to get a way of what that fashionable landmark appears like and if it is worthy of being added to your journey’s itinerary. Equally, it may be utilized by college students to study extra about fashionable historic monuments and landmarks.
2. New Location Sharing Options
Location sharing has at all times been an important a part of Google Maps. In actual fact, the corporate additionally means that you can share your dwell location with another person. Google is now making the situation sharing characteristic even higher because it now permits customers to get a notification when the individual that is sharing the situation has left or arrived at a specific place.
Here is the way it’ll assist you to: Say you are assembly up with mates at a restaurant. You may set a notification for the restaurant’s handle, so that you get a notification once they’ve arrived on the venue. This manner, you do not have to waste any of the time pinging everybody to know the place they’re. As an alternative, you’ll get a notification once they arrive on the venue. After all, the notification will solely come if your pals are already sharing (otherwise you request them to share) their location with you.
Google says the brand new characteristic is constructed with privateness on the forefront. The corporate will ship the person repeated notifications and emails if they’re constantly sharing location notifications with somebody. This manner, you may flip them off if it is not wanted. Each immersive view and placement sharing notifications can be found to all Google Maps customers beginning at this time.
3. Extra Info About Biking Routes
The variety of folks utilizing cycles to maneuver round has elevated, because of the pandemic elevating consciousness about well being and excessive oil costs. Whereas Google has been offering turn-by-turn biking navigation for greater than a decade, the replace will enable customers to get much more details about their routes.
The Maps will now present customers with a ‘detailed breakdown’ of the route that tells them if they’ll encounter heavy automotive visitors, stairs, or steep hills. It’ll additionally inform the customers the form of highway they are going to be touring on — a significant highway, a minor highway, a motorcycle lane, or a shared path. So you’ll not need to trip on unknown streets.
Google first gave us a look at these options again at Google I/O 2022, and now the corporate is lastly rolling them out to the customers. What are your ideas on the brand new Google Maps Options? Tell us in the feedback part beneath!
