Google Maps will begin estimating tolls and show extra particulars that will help you discover your approach

Google is asserting a handful of updates to Google Maps, together with one that can present toll costs earlier than you begin navigating to the place you wish to go.

“We look at factors like the cost of using a toll pass or other payment methods, what the day of the week it is, along with how much the toll is expected to cost at the specific time you’ll be crossing it,” Google mentioned in a weblog submit. If a toll-free route is accessible, that shall be proven as an possibility as nicely. The characteristic will start rolling out on Android and iOS for “nearly 2,000” toll roads within the US, India, Indonesia, and Japan this month. The characteristic will come to extra nations “soon.”

Google can also be including extra element to its navigation maps. “You’ll soon see traffic lights and stop signs along your route, along with enhanced details like building outlines and areas of interest,” the corporate says. In “select cities,” there shall be further added element like “the shape and width of a road, including medians and islands.” These improved maps will start rolling out within the “coming weeks” on Android, Android Auto, iOS, and Apple’s CarPlay software program.

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Google Maps customers on Apple units are getting some focused updates as nicely. There shall be a brand new widget for the iOS app that permits you to entry journeys pinned to the Go tab, and it will likely be obtainable within the coming weeks. The Google Maps Apple Watch app may even allow you to get instructions to any of your Google Maps shortcuts — locations like Home and Work — simply by tapping the shortcut in your watch. (Previously, you wanted to start out these journeys from the iOS app.) This characteristic will roll out beginning in “a few weeks.”

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