Google Maps Engine

One of the most unknown tools of Google undergoes a facelift to appear more intuitive to new users. And it is that not everyone knows about the existence of Google Maps Engine A tool designed for each user to personalize Google maps in their favor. Now it changes its name and image very aptly to become known as My Maps A movement focused on new users who wish to create their own cartographies without a place No mistake or confusion about the name of this app.

The changes come through an update of this application for the platform Android A new version that brings a short list of new features with it where it is main is its facial cleansing. In this way, instead of its already old name Google Maps Engine, this application is now called only My Maps A title that leaves out the name Google, but simplifies it according to the true mission of this tool: the possibility to create custom maps

The other image change comes directly from the application icon. A logo that now displays the unique location symbol used by Google on a sheet. A much more representative symbol of the functionalities that this application can carry out and that perfectly respects both the colors and the lines of the style of Google that have given on call Material DesignName and icon look like this now more simple and direct.

Lastly, this update does present technical innovations that improve the application, although they are not very representative. These are improvements in the search functions and when managing bookmarks Details of great importance for an application focused precisely on these issues, although without news in the field of options and features.

And the fact is that the now renamed My Maps is the perfect option for those users who need to create their own maps. Either with routes marked with different points of interest, using the information from Google about roads and different routes, or even their different layers to check the satellite images of the terrain.All this by linking points, creating routes or placing all kinds of markers on a specific portion of the map for any purpose. The possibilities are there, being the user who decides how to use it and for what reason.

In short, an update that offers a simpler view of an application that is somewhat unknown, but especially useful for those who are passionate about cartographyEven more so for all those who need to create a route or map with places of interest in a simple way and from their own mobile, using markers, measurements and characteristics extracted directly from Google Maps The application is completely free, and its new version is already available for be downloaded via Google Play