By Google has made some exciting announcements regarding Google Maps. For starters, they’ve revealed that the service now has information for over 1 million transit stops around the world. Yay!
But with that great news also comes word of an impending update for the Google Maps application that everyone will want to get their hands on.
They’ve made changes to transit line layers so you can differentiate between train, bus, trams, or subways. This’ll help make sure users aren’t looking at the wrong lines for areas that overlap. They’ve also made the following changes:
In addition to these new transit features, we’ve updated region highlighting, My Places and Location History displays in Google Maps for Android:
- Now, whenever you search for a city or postal code, the borders of that region are highlighted.
- Under My Places you’ll notice we’ve added new tabs, which will help you access all your information from a single place; from your saved maps for use offline to your starred places and Custom Maps created on your desktop.
- If you enable Location History, you’ll be able to browse the places you’ve been on a daily basis with an updated Location History dashboard.
Unfortunately, the app is not yet in the Google Play Store but Google says it will definitely be out sometime today. We’ll be looking out for version 6.10 once it does arrive. Head to Google’s lat long blog for more information.
looks like a nice update
http://goo.gl/YacLm
GMaps already has a lot of Info on the MTA NYCT, i wonder what else they can provide!
I know this has nothing to do with the article but look how sexy the Galaxy Nexus looks in the picture… So glad I have one
hehe, can’t wait see what the new improved Google Map do in action.
The new icon is ace too
they removed the google latitude widget now? it is no longer available… i cant believe that!!!!! let me guess… soon they will stop supporting latitude now…unbelievable
you have to turn on your sharing provisions again, like latitude
noticed that….yes… but the widget you can place on your home screen is gone.
This update causes constant reboots on Rezound. Open app and it works for maybe 10-15 seconds before the phone reboots. Restored old version with TiBu and everything is fine again.
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Now, whenever you search for a city or postal code, the borders of that region are highlighted”
It doesn’t do it for my location, Redwood Valley, CA 95470, it just shows a red pin. We are not an incorporated area (there are only four incorporated towns in Mendocino County, Ukiah, Willits, Fort Bragg, Point Arena), but are known as a CDP (Census Designated Place). I thought it would at least show the Zip Code boundaries for 95470, but I guess they still have some bugs to work out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Valley,_California
http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm That site does show the Zip Code boundaries.