This is how Google Maps has improved with its latest update

One more Wednesday Google updates its services and applications Y is that the commitment to users is clear and consistent every week, although the improvements and new features are not always striking and surprising. This time it's the turn of Google Maps, the maps and GPS tool more market, which now improves some of its well-known qualities such as the reviews of places, its step-by-step navigation and other details that we will discuss in detail below .

This is version 9.20 of Google Maps for the Android platform , and in it Google has introduced a series of small changes that affect its best-known functions to improve them, not to modify them. A good example is the case of the reviews of places, where you can share an opinion and assessment about the service of a restaurant, the atmosphere of a place or any other detail about. Recommendations and criticisms that are no longer supported only by words, but also by images, since that the photos of the user in said establishment are automatically related to their review, as long as they want to publish them, of course.

In the Navigation section, the GPS integratedGoogle Maps, the company has also made several improvements.The first of these is the use of floating signals on the map In this way, those intersections with several streets, or places that are somewhat more complex to represent, now count with a sign indicating both the name of the street and the direction of turn, as long as the user's route passes through them. New indications of the most convenient to highlight the next actions and not have to look for the name of the street embodied on the line that represents it, being able to find it in a more legible way floating on the map.

The other novelty of the GPS comes from the hand of a new option integrated in the menu Settings And it is now possible to activate or deactivate voice prompts when receiving phone calls This translates into the comfort of user when using Google Maps as GPS navigator and your phone as hands-free.With this, you can choose whether you want to hear both the application prompts and the conversation during a call, or give priority only to the call. All this without touching the newly added buttons to mute prompts.

Finally, for those who like to logging all their steps, Google has added the ultimate option to the place history of the application. Until now, this menu was in charge of collecting where the user has been and what establishments they have visited, but it could do little or nothing to those places that were left unregistered A fact that changes with the last update, since the user can display the menu of the history and add a stop or place , specifying the specific point to keep the location history correctly updated.

The new version 9.20 of Google Maps has already been released by Google via Google Play Store for free. Of course, as usual, your arrival in Spain may be delayed several days.

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