Google Maps allows you to set stopping points on routes

During this afternoon the company Google announced the launch of an extremely interesting new function for iPhone and Android terminals that have installed the application Google Maps, allowing users to mark on the routes created by the application various locations where they want to stop during a trip.

Specifically, after the user sets the starting and departure points for a trip, Google Maps app It will allow him to choose certain locations from the created route to stop there without losing the route initially created through the application, the image below shows how everything works.

Accessing this new function created for Google Maps it is done by pressing the icon of a search symbol after the route has been created by the user, various information about each stop point created by the user can be viewed directly in the application interface.

The new feature is offered in Android starting today, the platform iOS to have it available in the next period, but Google did not offer a date when they will update the application for iDevices with the idea of ​​offering this functionality for us as well.

Life is full of the unexpected—things that send us scrambling for a gas station in the middle of nowhere, looking up a florist on our way home from work or searching for a restaurant as we tour the back roads of our latest vacation destination. Finding and navigating to these last-minute pit stops used to force you out of navigation mode in Google Maps—and away from the traffic updates, turn-by-turn directions and map you rely on to stay on track.

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