Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Google Maps has new functionality. Only for devices … – Eco – ECO-Economics Online

There is a new panel with suggestions of sites, public transportation schedules and traffic information to drivers. For now, the new feature of Google Maps is only available for Android.

The Google maps for Android devices have a novelty. The company is updating the Google Maps application to include a new dashboard with useful information and real-time. the The new panel is divided in three tabs: sites, driving and public transport. In the first, the application shows, fundamentally, places to have lunch or where to drink a coffee nearby. The application also indicates other locations the request, such as grocery stores, fuel stations, atm machines and so forth.

In the tab of driving, Google Maps shows the sites saved by the user, such as the address of the house or work. Additionally, it indicates traffic information in real time, as well as an estimate of the time that it takes to reach each destination. Finally, in the third tab, the user has access to multiple public transport and the times of arrival of buses, metro and so forth. All in real time, based on the information that Google has access to.

The three new panels of the Google Maps for Android.Google

none of this is new in the app from the Google. In the background, what the company did was to gather, in a single place, the various information that it was possible to obtain in the application, with a better usability. The change has already been launched for Android devices and, soon, expected to reach all phones and tablets with the system of Google. The tab is accessible by dragging the new panel from the bottom of the screen.

For now, there is no information when the novelty will arrive to Apple devices. In an article in the blog the official of the company, a spokesperson from Google states merely that "when you are on trip, there is no time for applications that do not you can keep up".

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