Google Maps now lets you share driving directions
As every Wednesday, at dawn for Spain, Googlestart releasing updates and enhancements to your services and applications. An appointment that never fails, either with simple visual tweaks or focusing on new features. On this occasion, one of the updated tools has been Google Maps, well known by users for offering directions, map queries and even routes that mix means of transport and sections on foot.All this in the same application that is now a little more social and useful
And it is that the version 9.3, which is the number to which you have updated Google Your application now has a couple of new features Among them is the possibility of sharing directions of route. Thus, after having calculated any type of route: either on foot, public transport or in your own vehicle, The application has the option to share all the steps that must be taken to reach that destination. Turns, roundabouts, streets, tolls and any detail that must be carried out to trace the same steps that the user is going to take. A good option to share and publicize a correct route to other people Just click on the button with the three dots to display the context menu and select Share DirectionsAfter that, all that remains is to choose the application in which to record said route, be it an email from Gmail, a message from WhatsApp, or any other tool installed in the terminal.
On the other hand, this update also has a second useful functionality for users with less patience And that is that those who are accustomed to deactivate the GPS of your terminal to save battery, they must face a conconstant message warning of the need to activate it to locate them correctly in the application Google Maps Well, this message now can be silenced forever, preventing it from being displayed each time a route, map, or location is to be consulted. Just check the box to not show this message again to prevent it from bothering you every time you enter the application.
Another addition to this update is the permission that the user must accept to install it. Specifically, it deals with access to the connectivity via Bluetooth of the terminal. A function whose use has not been revealed. In addition, from the media AndroidPolice warn of possible news that the Google Maps team would be working on A feature called I am here (I'm here) that could be found in the guts of the application and that could seek to transform to Google Maps in the old Foursquare, seeking to publicize the places by those passed by the user Although, for now, these are just guesses.
What is true is that the user can already share all the steps that must be taken to reach a specific destination point, and the possibility of ending one of the heaviest messages of this application.All of this just by updating to version 9.3 of Google Maps, which is now fully available free via Google Play for platform Android
