The Cupertino tech giant has refreshed the Maps service backend with all-new transit directions in Switzerland and indoor maps for the city of Zurich’s busiest airport.
You can now get a list of everything happening nearby in the refreshed Google Maps app, as well as access elevation data for walking and cycling routes.
Aside from other new features, the watchOS 5 software gives you a new option to show navigation with the Maps on your wrist when walking or using public transportation, here’s how.
With watchOS 5, Apple Watch wearers are allowed to separately toggle turn-by-turn alerts for driving, CarPlay and walking, which wasn’t possible on older watchOS versions. If you mainly navigate with your watch, here’s how to customize navigation alerts to your liking.
Apple has hired 3,500 people for their centre focused on Maps development in Hyderabad.
The iPhone maker has expanded availability of transit directions on Apple Maps, which now includes select areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Michigan.
Shopping malls in several Canadian cities are now serving indoor maps that make it a lot easier for customers to find the exact location of stores, restaurants, restrooms and other points of interest on each floor.
Siri’s speech recognition system is paired with a bunch of geolocation-based language models allowing the smart assistant to recognize obscurely named places on a map.
The latest Google Maps update for iPhone and iPad should stop friends and family panicking if you’re not picking up their calls because they’ll now know you’re out of battery.
Google Maps for iOS lets you swap out the classic blue navigation arrow for one of the available vehicle icons with just a few steps. This helps you personalize and spice up your ride a bit, as our step-by-step tutorial shows.
Rebuilt from the ground up, the upcoming Apple Maps refresh will finally incorporate Google Street View-like street-level imagery gathered by Apple’s fleet of specialized vehicles.
Customers in two European Union member countries, Croatia and Slovenia, can now take advantage of a set of directional arrows at the top of the Apple Maps interface to be in the right lane when exiting a freeway or completing a turn.
