Without having the media counterpart of others, google maps is one of the company’s most popular services, a position that has allowed it to deploy the queen of GPS devices: TomTom. The high quality and, above all, the “free” nature of Google Maps put it at the top, but you know, with the giant from Mountain View, the price is almost always the same: our data.
Google has announced three new features coming to its maps service, which are more immersive aerial views of more than 100 landmarks around the world, more detailed cycling routes and improved location sharing with arrival and departure alerts. friends.
Of the news incorporated into Google Maps is absorbing view, which consists of offering photo-realistic views of more than 100 known points on the globe, with the aim of giving the user the feeling of actually being there (or at least close). The company explained that this was possible thanks to fusion of billions of images using artificial intelligence to create realistic three-dimensional views aimed at virtual viewing. Supported locations include cities such as London, New York, Barcelona, San Francisco and Tokyo.
The latest update to Google Maps has been introduced data from many cities related to cycle paths and cycle routes helps identify high traffic areas, flat or hilly terrain, road types, stairs, ridges and other features.
And finally with the news of Google Maps is improved location sharing. To refine the above, if a user meets a group of friends at a certain location, you can configure a location notification to be shared with the sending user after their friends arrive at that location. Similarly, users can set up an exit notification to notify them if a contact has left the location.
All of these new features should be available to Google Maps users on both Android and iOS. The Mountain View giant doesn’t want its map service to fall out of the first place, and is constantly working to improve it or add quirky features that, with a little imagination, can be more useful than meets the eye.
