Google's beloved Maps service recently had its 10-year birthday. It's been a long road, if you pardon the pun, and it's amazing to see how far this intrepid project has gone.
But Google definitely isn't sitting back yet. Starting immediately, the new lane guidance feature in Maps will now be delivering instructions to drivers in 15 new European countries. The feature has been available to certain markets, like the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom to name a few, since last year.
If you're a resident of one of these new locations and are running at least Maps 8.0, you should be noticing lane guidance as of now.
Google's lane guidance is exactly what it sounds. If you are on the road and are nearing an exit or turn, lane guidance will give you advanced warning of which lane you need to be in so you can better prepare for your turn-off. This should help alleviate the user from needing to frantically scramble across multiple lanes of traffic for their exit.
The 15 new countries are as follows:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- Greece
- Hungary
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Switzerland
As mentioned, there have been a few European countries that have already had this service, which Talk Android covered back in December. Citizens of France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, and the UK are the ones who have had this feature already.
No word yet on whether or not this feature will be expanding to Middle-Earth… (Insert cheesy “You shall not pass!” joke here, roll on snare drum.)
Source: Google Maps
