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Google Maps is pepped up!

19 Aug. 2008 | Author: AWo | german

At the beginning of August, Google’s local search feature, Google Maps, displayed a new face and overlooked a few new features.

Google Maps altAccording to the motto “Less is More”, the revised Google maps start page now presents a single entry screen, with which one can search the map as well as research services and providers at a desired location.  The route planner has been banished from this view, but is to be found via a link in the blue navigation bar above the search results.

Google Maps NeuAlmost at the same time as the appearance of the new layout, Google treated its users to a variety of other new functions. So, alongside its pedestrian navigation (see our report) in the route planer, there is now the possibility to refine routes by “avoiding toll roads”, which is above all useful for trips outside of Germany.

Google Maps DruckoptionenEspecially practical are also the new print functions for the route planner, as indicated by Google programmers Andrew Gove and Jonathan Siegel in the Google Lat Long Blog. Users gain simplified options to print practical/relevant information that will help them en route. To do this, after generating the relevant route, click on “Print” in the blue navigation bar above the map view.  On top of the resulting print-view of the map, once can choose whether one requires text descriptions for each leg of the route, or rather generate a “Street View”.  In addition the user can choose whether the overview map (showing the overall route) is to be printed or not.

For those who only need descriptions, maps or Street-View pictures for certain legs of the journey, the “Text” link can be chosen.  In the route description, one can have a map or street-view generated for each step of the way.  This can be chosen with a mouse-over/contextual-option choice.  The link “Street View” appears however only when there are existing photos of the chosen location/route.  This has yet to appear on the German website.

Google Maps is pepped up!
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