Google Maps rolls out detailed maps for four major cities: Report

Google is rolling out detailed road maps for four major cities throughout the globe.

The tech big had introduced the brand new visible enhancements in August 2020. The replace is now being rolled out to extra customers, in line with Android Police.

However, the replace is at the moment accessible solely for London, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.

With this, Google Maps will present extremely detailed road info for these cities, together with “the correct form and width of a highway to scale.”

“You can even see precisely the place sidewalks, crosswalks, and pedestrian islands are positioned–essential info when you have accessibility wants, like wheelchair or stroller necessities,” Google stated in a weblog publish.

The new function is out there via a server-side replace.

Google Maps had additionally leveraged its new “colour-mapping algorithmic approach” to boost the pure options of a spot on the map.

“Exploring a spot provides you a have a look at its pure options — so you’ll be able to simply distinguish tan, arid seashores and deserts from blue lakes, rivers, oceans and ravines. You can know at a look how lush and inexperienced a spot is with vegetation, and even see if there are snow caps on the peaks of mountaintops,” Google stated within the weblog publish.