Google Maps’ second feature announcement is about detailed cycling routes. Earlier this month, Instagram rolled out a searchable maps feature so people can find new places to visit. Notably, Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s senior vice president for Knowledge & Information organization, said at a conference last month that young people are using Instagram and TikTok more to discover restaurants and other places to visit. All of this ties into the firm’s effort to make people use Google Maps as a preferred app for place discovery.
With that in mind, the company is now rolling out immersive views of more than 100 places situated in cities like Barcelona, London, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.īut while the feature is currently restricted to landmarks, the company mentioned at Google IO it plans to apply this to restaurants and neighborhoods as well so users can check out how they look before visiting. The company first introduced the idea of immersive views at its developer conference Google IO back in May with an aim to creating 3D models of landmarks by using a fusion of Street View, satellite and aerial images. Google Maps has long been adding in more features beyond just giving you the ability to plan how to get from point A to B, and even some of the features today are essentially interim steps in longer upgrade strategies.
In aid of that, today the company announced three new features for its star navigation app, Google Maps: aerial and more immersive views of 100 landmarks, more detailed cycling routes, and improved location sharing with notifications for the arrival and departure of your friends. Google - facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things - wants to be the first place people go for discovery and planning pastimes.
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