Google Maps Gets Aerial View of Landmarks, Location Sharing Notifications, More

Google Maps is getting a bunch of latest options. In order to supply a real-life take a look at the locations, Google has added aerial and immersive views of round 100 of the world’s hottest landmarks. With the most recent replace, Google Maps may even show detailed biking routes for cyclists indicating the presence of stairs or steep hills of their course. Further, the situation sharing characteristic on the platform is getting enhancements with the addition of arrival and departure notifications.

Alphabet-owned Google, by way of a blog post on Wednesday detailed all the brand new options that Google Maps is rolling out for customers. To present an enhanced digital mannequin of buildings and streets world wide, the search big has added photorealistic aerial views of almost 100 standard landmarks in cities together with Barcelona, London, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo proper to Google Maps. The aerial views are a primary step in direction of the launch of the immersive view characteristic the corporate showcased on the Google I/O occasion in May. It combines Street View and aerial photographs alongside advances in laptop imaginative and prescient and synthetic intelligence (AI) to supply the digital mannequin of digital maps.

Travellers can seek for a landmark in Google Maps and head to the Photos part to see an aerial view of it. Apart from landmarks, Google Maps goals to supply a wealthy view of a neighbourhood, restaurant, or standard venues with an immersive view expertise.

After the discharge of the lite navigation characteristic, Google is upgrading the biking navigation with superior options. It will present vital particulars concerning the journey route together with heavy automobile visitors and stairs or steep hills within the course. Cyclists may also see an in depth breakdown of the route itself and they’re going to be capable to evaluate bike routes to arrange for the journey forward. These will begin rolling out within the coming weeks within the cities the place Google Map’s biking instructions can be found.

Furthermore, Google is bringing notifications for arrival and departure for a selected location with the Google Map’s location sharing characteristic. This would let when a good friend arrives at or leaves a selected location. Notifications can solely be set for somebody who has already chosen to share their location with you. iPhone maker Apple can also be providing an analogous characteristic with the Find My app.

The new aerial views of landmarks and site sharing notifications at the moment are rolling out globally on each Google Maps for Android and iOS.