Google Maps for iPhone Gaining Live View for Indoor Navigation, Eco-Friendly Route Options, More

Google today announced some major new features that are coming to Google Maps later this year. The update's highlight is Live View for indoor navigation, which builds on the Live View feature that Google Maps kickoff rolled out in 2022.

With Live View for indoor navigation, Google wants to put an terminate to users walking in the opposite direction of where they actually want to get. The company is using AI to browse Street View images to empathize the user orientation and indicate the correct direction. For now, Google is bringing Live View to airports, transit stations, and malls.

Using Live View, you will be able to observe the nearest elevator and escalator, baggage claim, ticket function, restrooms, ATMs, and more. Indoor Live View will exist bachelor on iPhone and Android in several malls in Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, San Jose, San Francisco, and Seattle. It will as well roll out the feature to select airports and malls in Tokyo and Zurich in the coming months.

Google Maps is gaining a new conditions layer that will let you quickly encounter the current and forecasted temperature and weather condition atmospheric condition. The air quality layer volition testify you how healthy or unhealthy the air is in a specific area. Google has partnered with The Weather Company, AirNow.gov, and the Fundamental Pollution Lath for these layers. The weather layer will be bachelor globally, while the air quality layer will be available in Australia, India, and the U.South.

Google volition roll out an eco-friendly routing model in the US. The new routing model will have factors similar route incline and traffic congestion into account to suggest a route that volition consume the lowest fuel. Google Maps will as well automatically default to the route with the lowest carbon footprint when information technology has the aforementioned ETA as the fastest route. In other cases, Google will let you compare the ETA betwixt the 2 routes along with the carbon footprint so that users tin make up one's mind what'south more important. Eco-friendly route suggestions will launch in the United states in Google Maps for iOS and Android later this year.

Additionally, Google is making information technology easier to select more sustainable ways of travel in Maps. The company will provide a detailed view of all routes and transportation modes to the entered destination without users having to switch between tabs. Using car learning, Maps will besides automatically prioritize your preferred traveling fashion.

[Via Google]