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On more than one occasion Google Maps has played a trick on you A statement with which you surely feel identified. The applications are not infallible, and neither is the technology that loads our mobile. For this reason, sometimes, the GPS may not find your most exact position, confusing the street you are on with another very close one. And even worse: that it indicates the exact opposite direction to where you want to go. Sometimes it happens, but Google is improving its system so that you can fix these bugs more easily.Here we tell you.
If Google Maps detects that your mobile's GPS isn't working as smoothly as it should, a message will automatically appear on the screen. It tells you that you must move the terminal in a figure of eight to recalibrate the sensors Remember that not only does the GPS start up when you locate yourself in a virtual map, compass and gyroscope also come into play. With this energetic movement that you must repeat several times, your mobile will restart the sensors and locate you again. Or so it should be. But now Google is raising news about it.
According to 9to5Google, now Google Maps also takes advantage of Augmented Reality to help you calibrate direction. That is to say, that you are clear about where you are looking or heading.And it is that recalibrating the GPS helps your location, but not to know where you are looking. Now, taking advantage of the reality that surrounds you, and through the camera of your mobile, you can also confirm that you are walking in the right direction.
Live View
With the arrival of Google Pixel 3a mobile phones, Google introduced the Augmented Reality function to move around on Google Maps: Live View. It's a kind of Street View, where you see photos of streets and move virtually with them, but taking advantage of this AR. Which means that you can see reality through your mobile camera, but also messages, directions to where to turn or even business signs superimposed on this realityAll this in real time.
A function that little by little has been expanding to more phones with Android operating system.And that now they are launching a new function to recalibrate not only your location, but also the correct direction in which you are looking. Something that would prevent mistakes in the direction of travel or that would show you locations and addresses in the wrong way. A double correction so that the most clueless when it comes to locating themselves have all the tools to find their destination.
How to recalibrate your driving direction
All you have to do is click on your blue dot on the map This displays a special information screen to know your current location , nearby sites or even access the old compass calibration system. Now Google Maps has a new tool called Calibrate with Live View. And that ensures this direction in which you are looking, and not only the location and correct operation of the GPS.
Click on the option Calibrate with Live View to start the process. The first time you do it you will find a small tutorial that will ask you for permission to activate the camera of your mobile and explain that it will use the reality of your environment to find the direction in which you are looking.
You'll need to detect buildings, signs, signals, and other items for Google Maps to recognize the exact address When it does, everything will be calibrated and the blue beam coming from the point that identifies you on the map will coincide with the direction in which you are looking. This way there will be no mistakes when it comes to knowing where you are going.
