Google Maps. The first MAJOR NEWS of 2019

Google Maps. The first major news of 2019 were revealed today, with a series of highly anticipated features being prepared for all users.

Google Maps radar

Google Maps. The largest platform of online maps from all over the world is preparing a series of very important news for users all over the world, some of which are already activated for certain people. More precisely, in the image below you can see that Google Maps has already started to display the radars that are located on the routes we are going to travel on, just as Waze does for users who use the platform for navigation anywhere in the world.

Google Maps. Apart from radars, the application now also displays the accidents that exist on our route, the functionality also being taken over from Waze, precisely because it is so popular among users. For now, in the case of radars, the fixed ones seem to be displayed, not the mobile ones, as happens in the case of Waze, where users can report various locations where the police have an active radar, so the functionality is not as complex for now.

Google Maps displays speed cameras and information about accidents

Google Maps accident radar

Google Maps. As a novelty for 2019, the application now also plays an audio alert when we approach a radar, so we don't have to always pay attention to the application, just as it happens in Waze. At the moment, this functionality offered by Google Maps is only in the testing phase, so it could be modified until it is released in the final version for all users of the platform.

Google Maps. The implementation of the functions available within Waze was the only logical step that Google could take for its users, who began to use this separate platform more and more often. From my point of view, the implementation of these functions within Google Maps should have been done a long time ago in order to offer even in these applications what the world wants, so it remains to be seen how everything will look in the end.