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Google Maps continues to increase its options with the addition of new features. It started out as a great app for exploring the world, but today it's perfect for driving or moving around the city. Google Maps continues to work hard to become your city guide and take advantage of very good competitors like HERE Maps.
Currently Google Maps is able to recommend all kinds of services, transport and even public transport schedules.Now, in its latest addition, it also allows you to check available rental bikes in your city. Interesting right?
Google Maps tells you how many bikes are available
Thanks to this addition, Google Maps informs us, in real time, of how many bicycles we can rent knowing which ones are free and without having to enter the applications of companies such as Bicing or BiciMAD. Performing this query is very simple.
- Enter the Google Maps application.
- Position the map over the area where you want to search for a bike.
- Enter the name of the bicycle rental company. In case you don't know the name of the company you can also write rental bikes.
The application not only tells you where these bikes are, but it is able to tell you everything about them:
- Number of positions available.
- Number of bicycles available.
Once the station we want to go to is located, Google Maps will take care of indicating the path to our nearest free rental bike It is possible that during the journey someone has reached it before (keep that in mind) but the service works exactly in cities like Madrid or Barcelona. The information is exactly the same that we can find in the official applications of the different companies, although in this way we will save an extra application on our phone.
Cities where you can check the rental bikes available on Google Maps
This option is currently available in 24 cities around the globe.
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Barcelona
- Berlin
- Brussels
- Budapest
- Chicago
- Mexico City
- Dublin
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Kaohsiung
- London
- The Angels
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Montreal
- NY
- New Taipei
- Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo
- Toronto
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Zurich
