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Without prior notice and without official information, Google has launched a new functionality in its maps application. In this way, Google Maps becomes even more useful with information about the congestion that we can find on the roads. In other words, we can now know if it's a good time before leaving home to reach our destination With which Google Maps is also useful before starting the trip .
This is a function released through their servers.In other words, it hasn't arrived via a new update, but you need to keep the app up to date to use it. From here all that remains is to consult a route by car to see if it is a good time to start the march. At the moment it is a function seen on mobile phones with the Android operating system.
Highway congestion
This indication is very reminiscent of the one that appears when consulting establishments and premises in the application. It is a graph of bars that distributes congestion and time In such a way, and as it happens in places, it is possible to know if there are many people passing by the same path at that time.
The bars are distributed over half-hour periods. Enough to have a margin and to be able to give some time for the route to clear of traffic.In addition, these bars show colors depending on the number of cars there Thus it is possible to see, at a glance, if a section is free thanks to the green color, or if it is congested in orange and red color.
How to see all this information
Just search for a destination on Google Maps. From here, all that remains is to click on the How to get there button. Of course, you have to make sure choose the car as a means of transport And this indication is not shown in other means such as the train, although it would also be information Useful to try to avoid crowds.
From now on, all you have to do is display the tab at the bottom of the screen. This is where, in addition to turn and direction directions, the traffic congestion graph now appears first. The bars that, with their colors, help to see if during that half hour the route will be full of cars or free to circulate
At the moment this feature has been seen on Android phones. Hopefully it will roll out to all Google Maps users, regardless of platform, soon. However, there is still no direct official information from Google.
