Life in the fast lane: lane guidance for drivers in Google Maps
Friday, December 12, 2014
Over the holiday season, if you’re driving back home to see family, or meeting up with friends, you can get where you want to go quickly and easily using voice-guided navigation in Google Maps — now with helpful lane guidance for highways in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Ireland.
When you’re in the turn-by-turn navigation mode, we can now make sure you don’t miss your next turn or exit by showing you which lane to stay in or move to so you’ll never find yourself darting across traffic at the last minute -- or worse, driving for miles down the wrong road. When you approach a junction or exit with multiple lanes, voice guidance will suggest which lanes are best for your route. You’ll also have easy access to alternate routes while you’re navigating, so you can choose the best drive for you.
To access turn-by-turn Navigation, open the Google Maps app on Android or iPhone and get directions to a location. Then simply touch the Navigation icon to hear voice-guided directions, complete with lane guidance. (Of course, don’t forget to enable GPS on your device to use Navigation.) For more information on navigation and lane guidance, see our help page.
Safe travels!
When you’re in the turn-by-turn navigation mode, we can now make sure you don’t miss your next turn or exit by showing you which lane to stay in or move to so you’ll never find yourself darting across traffic at the last minute -- or worse, driving for miles down the wrong road. When you approach a junction or exit with multiple lanes, voice guidance will suggest which lanes are best for your route. You’ll also have easy access to alternate routes while you’re navigating, so you can choose the best drive for you.
To access turn-by-turn Navigation, open the Google Maps app on Android or iPhone and get directions to a location. Then simply touch the Navigation icon to hear voice-guided directions, complete with lane guidance. (Of course, don’t forget to enable GPS on your device to use Navigation.) For more information on navigation and lane guidance, see our help page.
Safe travels!
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Will come to the Netherlands soon right?
ReplyDeleteI know that is a about another google app, but Waze should also have traffic by Lane! :)
ReplyDeleteCan you make motorways blue in UK please ?!
ReplyDeletePlease give back European Portuguese language to Portuguese users in turn by turn directions and not Brazilian Portuguese !!!
ReplyDeleteI face the same Issue in Dubai last year ,I hope your update include it
ReplyDeleteWhile this is a nice update, please include OFFLINE support. This is the single most important feature. The app is *use-less* in Europe without it, you hear that?
ReplyDeleteYou seldomly have data on highways, you absolutely won't have data when you cross borders, and outside your city getting data is shaky as best.
Instead of saving tiny patches of card data on my phone, which i can't browse or navigate, stored routes wide enough to include wrong turns and rest-stops would be fine.
I know you can pre-lead a route and it somewhat work: but, one wrong tap and it's gone. A crash, freeze, etc. I had it fail on me so often wouldn't be able to count. Not to mention that once you're there you can't navigate back.
While this is a nice update, please include OFFLINE support. This is the single most important feature. The app is *use-less* in Europe without it, you hear that?
ReplyDeleteYou seldomly have data on highways, you absolutely won't have data when you cross borders, and outside your city getting data is shaky as best.
Instead of saving tiny patches of card data on my phone, which i can't browse or navigate, stored routes wide enough to include wrong turns and rest-stops would be fine.
I know you can pre-lead a route and it somewhat work: but, one wrong tap and it's gone. A crash, freeze, etc. I had it fail on me so often wouldn't be able to count. Not to mention that once you're there you can't navigate back.
To: Darren Baker, product manager, Google Maps,
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Baker,
I saw your post titled "Life in the fast lane: lane guidance for drivers in Google Maps" (posted at http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/) and thought you might be the right person to ask.
I switched to T-Mobile yesterday, Dec. 20. I live in Utah and will travel to Italy in January. I would like to use my cell phone as a speak-to-me-in-English GPS device so I can navigate the streets there like I can here in America. I am not sure how to do it and am not even sure if you are the right people to ask or if I need to do anything different from what I do now.
EQUIPMENT: I have a Moto X phone with an Android version 4.4.4
WHAT I DO NOW: I see that I can do with T-Mobile what I have been doing previously with Verizon. I simply say, for example, "Okay Google now, navigate to Salt Lake City International Airport"
WHAT IT DOES: It displays a map and starts talking to me telling me to drive north on such and such a street and as I go along it tells me in advance to turn right, turn left, etc., etc., to my destination. I love it. Apparently, nothing about the identity of my phone service provider has changed anything about your product.
WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEN IN GENOA ITALY: Of course, now that I have T-Mobile, I may (apparently) be able to get off the airplane in Genoa, Italy and talk to my phone and have it work there like it works here. I want to get in my car at the airport and have my phone do exactly the same thing there: listen to me ask the same sort of thing as I ask here in America, when I speak in English and Google Maps navigator voice speaks back to me in English, giving me my directions.
Do I need to download some sort of app? Will the Google Maps system work over there in Italy? Will it speak to me in English? Can I speak to it in English?
I AM NOT TECH SAVVY, so if you give me an answer or direct me to someone who can give me an answer, your response or their response will have to be dumbed down (so if you or they tell me to do something that "something" has to be plain English and not computer-talk that a seven-year-old would not understand).
Thanks!
I find the iphone/google maps compatibility issues to be very irritating. Maybe I'll just start my own iphone or google. Nah, let them do it, they do a much better job.
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