Google Maps is including brand-new functions for tourists.
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Google desires its Maps app to be about more than simply getting instructions. The search giant on Thursday revealed a handful of brand-new functions targeted at assisting individuals while they are preparing journeys and taking a trip.
One brand-new function lets individuals bring up their travel bookings, like flight and hotel reservations, so they do not need to leave the app while they’re browsing to a brand-new location. The tool works if you’re offline, so it’s readily available for tourists going to off-the-grid locations. Another upgrade lets individuals export a list of of dining establishments and other locations they have actually gone to to show good friends.
The modifications followed Google closed down its travel management app Trips previously today however stated it would incorporate its functions into the business’s other items.
Google likewise stated Thursday it’s broadening its enhanced truth strolling navigations, a function that assists individuals discover their method by utilizing a phone’s electronic camera and revealing digital arrows on the screen. The function, which has actually remained in screening, is likewise getting a brand-new name: Live View. It will be readily available on Android phones and iPhones that can support enhanced truth graphics, in places where Google Maps’ Street View is readily available.
The brand-new functions belong to a push to make Maps a better center of details. In June, for instance, the business presented brand-new tools to assist individuals throughout a crisis or natural catastrophe, like revealing an earthquake’s center or making it simpler to browse through a crisis zone. Google Maps has actually likewise been broadening its discovery tools. Earlier this year, the business stated the Maps would highlight a menu’s most popular meals and let individuals order food straight from the app.
The includes revealed Thursday, however, likewise highlight simply just how much Google understands about its users. It can confine all your travel reservations in the app due to the fact that it understands your strategies from Gmail invoices and web history. The list of your preferred dining establishments is created if you have actually switched on your place history.
The place history tool has actually drawn criticism in the past. Google dealt with blowback after the Associated Press reported in 2015 that Google tracked individuals’s place even after they’d shut off location-sharing on their phones.
