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 search for the nearest electric vehicle charging stations with Google Maps and see information like their location, the types of ports available, charging speeds, how many ports there are and more.
People in North America spend a full day per month commuting, prompting Google to bring some new commute features to the Maps app like live traffic/transit info.
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.
Wish there was an easier way to control your music playback while you were navigating with Apple or Google Maps? Try Mapsic.
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.
