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The format resembles the ‘Story’ like we have seen on other platforms, with content one can quickly breeze through. This is our community of over 120 million people all around the world who have opted in to be contributors to maps and to really help be our eyes and ears in local communities to help make sure that their neighbourhood their town, their area of the globe is well represented on the map,” Fitzpatrick explained in the call.įinally, the Updates tab will be a revamped version of the For You tab, which is a feed of trending places, must-see spots with recommendations from local experts. A lot of those contributions come from our local guides community. “Users every day contribute over 20 million updates and pieces of content to the map. Google Maps has come a long way since 2005, according to Jen Fitzpatrick, SVP Google Maps, who has been at the company for twenty years. In case of Explore, it shows information for restaurants, businesses, live events around an area, while Commute typically shows the daily time it takes for a user to get to their workplace and back to home along with traffic updates, travel times.

The Explore Tab and Commute tab will remain as before, continuing to show what they always did. In the new design, there will be an Explore, Commute, Saved, Contribute and Updates tab. Currently, Google Maps has the Explore Tab, the Commute Tab and For You.

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In the new design, which will come on both Android and iOS, Google is adding new tabs at the bottom of the app. Google Maps app will now have five tabs, including a new Saved, Contribute and Updates tab. In fact, Maps has now become a place for exploration and discovery, and will try to answer more in-depth queries from users, and the new design will focus on this. īut Google knows that Maps in 2020 will do a lot more than just help users get from point A to point B. Happy 15th Birthday Reflecting today on some of the ways it’s been helpful to me, from getting around more easily to finding a good veggie burrito wherever I am:) Thanks to the support of our users, Maps keeps getting more helpful every day.

On an average day, people worldwide drive over 1 billion kilometres using Google Maps, according to Fitzpatrick, which shows how popular the navigation feature has become. Thankfully, Google Maps users no longer need to print directions given there is real-time turn-by-turn navigation on our smartphones. Think you have Google Maps all figured out? Well here are six tips to make it even more useful

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