Table of contents:
- More Organized "My Addresses" Tab
- Custom icons for home and work
- Dismiss local business display posts
- A much more specific timeline
- Integrated applications: Hailo and Mytaxi in Spain
Google Maps has already been updated on Android and very soon it will do so in iOS It brings news and new features of the most interesting, such as a tab to include means of transport and taxis without having to depend on external applications, as well as new icons to mark our home or office. With this strategy Google Maps intends to compete with its strongest rivals such as Here Maps, which is currently at the forefront of cartography applications.
More Organized "My Addresses" Tab
The “My Addresses” tab until now contained a potpourri of all the sites without differentiating between them; places you've saved, places you've visited, home, work, and even custom maps. Now Google Maps has reorganized the menu to make the user experience much simpler and more intuitive. Consists of multiple tabs which are organized into saved addresses and visited addresses.
Custom icons for home and work
Google provides custom icons for the two main addresses, home and work ranging from a castle, a van and even a Wild West saloon. Although this may not seem like a very useful option, it can be for people who, for example, have just moved to a new city and thanks to the icons they can be located with a simple glance.
Dismiss local business display posts
As time passes, more and more establishments accumulate in the tab of "Local Guide" waiting to be scored and get an opinion. We can end up having a large number of places accumulated in that list but now, with a simple gesture, we can discard them We just have to go to the additional menu and check the option discard and we will never have to see that place that we were never going to rate again.
A much more specific timeline
There have also been some adjustments to the timeline. Now you can see, in addition to the routes, how long you've been walking, driving or using public transport thanks to small markers located next to the date of travel.
Integrated applications: Hailo and Mytaxi in Spain
The most notable has undoubtedly been the integration of external taxi services within the application itself that allow us not to have to depend on external applications, with which, in addition to comfort, we also gain space for our device. The taxi and transport services tab is integrated into the mobility tab along with «walking», «by car», «bike» «traffic», and has a approximate fare calculationfor the route we select.
Google works with different taxi service providers such as 99Taxis in Brazil or Uber in Mexico In the case of Spain, it has partnered with two of the emerging but solid companies in the service, Hailo and Mytaxi, which at the moment only operate in Madrid and Barcelona.
