Google says these improvements will include "improved lane details" (like the below) to help you know exactly when to get off the highway, along with some more realistic buildings to help you pinpoint exactly where you are. If you regularly use Google Maps as your in-car sat-nav, you'll be pleased to hear that some navigation improvements are coming down the road – well, in the "coming months" at least. improved navigation coming in "the coming months" to 12 countries.This AR-powered feature (which sounds ideal for some AR glasses, like Google's rumored Project Iris revival) is coming to dozens of new cities including Austin, Las Vegas, Rome, São Paulo, and Taipei. That opens a live camera view, so you can spin around and see what Google Maps has labeled in your immediate surroundings, like restaurants, ATMs, stations, or landmarks. If you're feeling completely bamboozled in a new area, it's a handy feature – just tap the 'Lens' icon in the Google Maps search bar on Android or iOS. Lens in Maps comes to over 50 new cities this weekĭid you know that Maps has a built-in Google Lens feature that can label things around you using your phone's camera? This used to be called 'Search with Live View', but Google now calls it 'Lens in Maps' – and this week the feature's coming to over 50 new cities.Rather than a long list of results, you'll now see themes appear in Google Maps search results (like 'art exhibitions' or 'anime'), which promises to make it more like a Maps-based Time Out guide. The other update, rolling out globally on Android and iOS this week, will help answer those broader 'things to do' searches. This feature is rolling out this week in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan. Streets, roads and buildings photos from satellite.
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Pick your favorite from the images and it'll give you more info and directions. Address search, weather forecast, region list of Canada. Rather than simply showing you cafes with 'animal latte art' in their name or reviews, it'll use this image analysis to give you a list of photo-based results, too. The first is photo-first results for searches, which will come from an AI-powered analysis of billions of photos shared by Maps users.
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Google says it sees millions of broader searches in Google Maps, like "animal latte art" or simply "things to do around me", so it's bringing a couple of updates to help with those.