Google Maps has just announced three updates to its service that significantly improve its recommendation system, both by users and AI.
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Google Maps continues to improve with several welcome updates in recent months, such as the addition of building entrances, 3D navigation and the integration of local weather to the places you are viewing.
Other updates are planned to improve visit recommendations, but also allow you to save places to share with those around you.
The recommendation is enriched on Google Maps
The most interesting new feature of this update is certainly this new system of recommendations from the community, reserved for the moment in the United States and Canada. Thanks to this feature, when you search for a city on Google Maps, the platform will offer you three lists of recommendations that come both from other users, but also from external websites.
The “Trend” list will show you the most popular places at the moment, the “Top” list concerns the most popular places over all periods and the “Gems” list (rare gem) aims to help you discover new places that could well gain popularity. Here, Google Maps draws heavily on the filtering options for different content on Reddit.
AI summarizes the essentials about a location
New lists for each city
Create custom lists
You can also create lists from the “Saved” menu which will allow you to save different places, classify them, annotate them in order to share your selection with those around you or on social networks like Mapstr.
Finally, a Google Maps update would be nothing without a hint of AI: the service will now use artificial intelligence to summarize the essential things you need to know about a place like a restaurant, like the most popular dishes or even the general feeling about the atmosphere.
Google Maps simplifie son interface
Google also announced subtle updates to the Google Maps interface, which will soon feature “a cleaner home screen, with fewer tabs, and new pin colors that make it easier to find places on the map.” map “.
All of these updates should already be implemented in the latest update of the Google Maps app on Android and iOS, as well as on the web.