Thursday, February 20, 2014

Google compiles the map service improvements in the new version - TeK.sapo

The new version of Maps was introduced by Google in May last year, the conference of developers and the company in the months that followed many of the promised features were introduced. User feedback has dictated, however, several improvements that integrate the final phase of the new Maps has now been announced.

This new generation of Google Maps, with a renewed and that gives direct access to a set of extended interface functionality is available for desktop and mobile environments, with versions for Android and iOS. Over the coming weeks reaches all countries, with the full range of features which compose it, some still available.

One of the strongest bets Maps is the new traffic information in real time. This is one of the features that Google has begun to explore yet in preview the new version and it has been improved and extended to a wider range of countries. Gives access to traffic information allowing the user to decide whether a route is the most appropriate at each moment. It also allows you to query historical information about traffic at a certain location at a certain time, helping the user to identify patterns. This is possible through the functionality typical traffic.

In Portugal the functionality of traffic straight from Google Maps is now also available in some points, covering highways, motorways but also urban areas, including town of Lisbon and Porto.

Another area where Google has developed further with the formula presented preview of the service work was the route by improving the tools available to the user to define the type of route you want to establish . The possibility of defining a path for walking, by car or public transport, now joins the bike.

In a video released last year also Google updates summarizing what it had achieved together and enhance the latest version of Maps.

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