Google Maps App Update: An Overview
For Android the App is now in Version 8.0 released for iOS in Version 3.0. What Google has generally screwed, you will see in this Overview.
- Design Modification of the card
- Lane assistant
- Improved Offline Mode
- Better information about buses and trains
- Optimized Search
- New Navigation Features
Google Maps App Update: Redesign of the map
- What is the first thing you notice is the new Design of the card. Different types of roads are now highlighted in green, black, white or dashed lines.
- In addition, will now add a Scale at the very bottom. You can measure the ideal distance. The bar only appears when you move the card, then it is hidden again.
Google Maps: use maps offline
In the holiday or in areas with poor network, it must be no longer dispensed with on Google Maps. Finally, there is a function that you can save the maps for Offline use. This was previously only possible with a little Trick.
- Tap the top right in the search line on the profile Button.
- Scroll then to the bottom and select the Option "save map to use offline".
- Now select the desired area. The maps for this area can then be viewed offline, and zoomed in.
- The neckline is satisfied and he is not for Google Maps is too large, click on the Button "Save" and wait till the Download is finished.
Google Maps: public TRANSPORT-looking for Connections
- Also, the Integration of the public transport has been significantly optimized. In order to do this, switch the search from the car to the track icon.
- Bus - and train-Connections will now be supplemented only by the indication of footpaths, but also continuously updated, if you miss a connection.
- Currently, only the Connections of the Deutsche Bahn and the transport within the largest German cities, however, are displayed.
Google Maps: places and contacts search
- You want to search for the most direct route to a friend from your phonebook, it is now no longer a Problem. Type in the search the name of the contact.
- You're driving your car, can be the input of the address is not only difficult but also dangerous. You can do this by voice from now on, the new detection use.
- Google has also integrated a Filter-function that you can use to filter the results, for example, in categories such as Restaurants.
Google Maps: Lane Assistant
- So you know, even on multi-lane roads, exactly where you need to be classified, there is now a lane assistant.
- The function is not configured to be in Germany, however, even for many roads.
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