First up, the Stay View visible search expertise is rolling out to London, Los Angeles, New York, Pairs, San Francisco, and Tokyo. First launched in September, the function makes use of Road View photographs and AI.
A weblog submit explains extra about the way it works:
Say you’re visiting New York with plans to knock out your vacation buying and meet up with buddies. Carry your telephone and faucet on the digicam icon within the search bar to see close by shops and different locations like espresso outlets, banks and ATMs. With AR-powered instructions and arrows, you possibly can see what course they’re in and the way distant they’re — and even spot locations that aren’t in your fast view (like a clothes retailer across the block) to get a real sense of the neighborhood at a look. To search out different locations to hang around, faucet on totally different place classes to discover what eating places, bars, dessert outlets, parks and transit stations are close by.
Together with the situation, you can too see details about the spots like whether or not it’s open, how busy it’s, the value vary, and Google Maps group rankings.
Anybody with an electrical automobile can now use the app to seek out one of the best charging station avaialble. Start a seek for “EV charging stations” after which select the quick cost filter.
That may present stations with chargers 50kW or above. One other filter choice is the power to see stations that supply your automobile plug kind.
The power to view accessible locations in now accessible worldwide after initially launching within the U.S., Australia, Japan, and U.Okay. in 2020. After turning on Accessible Places within the app, you possibly can see if the vacation spot is wheelchair accessible.
Google Maps is a free obtain for the iPhone and all iPad fashions. It is usually accessible on the Apple Watch.
Earlier this yr, Google Maps on the Apple Watch was made fully impartial so that you don’t want your iPhone close by to navigate.
