Google India has launched driving directions for users of Google Maps. At present the user can now navigate around locations via Google Maps on their desktops and mobile phones using landmarks like petrol stations, banks, schools, railway stations, bus stops, local businesses & traffic circles and signals. India is the first country worldwide to get this feature on Google Maps.
Indians are more relaxed finding way on the streets using landmarks. Normally many roads in India are not marked with road signs and even if they are, the signs are not visible. In a few cases people do not even know the road names. For example, a friend asks you for directions to your house for a new year party, or to that nice picnic spot you recommended to celebrate a new year’s eve, you scribble a few lines on a piece of paper or explain that they must take a turn from a petrol pump or a bus stop or a grocery shop! Google today enables this activity online and share with friends and family.
In India, Google has collected good landmark data through user-created "Points of Interest" in Google Map Maker. Google’s new algorithm determines which of these landmarks are most useful for navigation, based on significance, and closeness to the turns that the user is making and other available signals. By this launch, Google will now combine landmark data, counted turns ("the 2nd right"), intersection names, and road names, and try to use whatever information is most appropriate and useful.
Google is providing two kinds of landmarks, to make out where users want to turn and to provide confirmation that they are on the right track. Google also encourages users to assist make directions even better for millions of users in India by enriching landmarks data through Google Map Maker.
Indians are more relaxed finding way on the streets using landmarks. Normally many roads in India are not marked with road signs and even if they are, the signs are not visible. In a few cases people do not even know the road names. For example, a friend asks you for directions to your house for a new year party, or to that nice picnic spot you recommended to celebrate a new year’s eve, you scribble a few lines on a piece of paper or explain that they must take a turn from a petrol pump or a bus stop or a grocery shop! Google today enables this activity online and share with friends and family.
In India, Google has collected good landmark data through user-created "Points of Interest" in Google Map Maker. Google’s new algorithm determines which of these landmarks are most useful for navigation, based on significance, and closeness to the turns that the user is making and other available signals. By this launch, Google will now combine landmark data, counted turns ("the 2nd right"), intersection names, and road names, and try to use whatever information is most appropriate and useful.
Google is providing two kinds of landmarks, to make out where users want to turn and to provide confirmation that they are on the right track. Google also encourages users to assist make directions even better for millions of users in India by enriching landmarks data through Google Map Maker.
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