Google adds Indoor Maps just in time for Black Friday - dickensanyted

Google updated its Maps service for background browsers adding floor plans for over 10,000 indoor locations, just in time for Black Friday deal hunters and directionally challenged vacation travelers.

The indoor floor plans were available only on Google Maps for Android, but now you can now check indoor maps of airports, shopping malls, conference centers, casinos, train Stations and museums from some Vane web browser.

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Google's list of interior maps – available in eighter from Decatur countries around the world – only mentions some of the 10,000 locations with story plans. More than locations are added every day, says Google. To help fuel map of interiors Google right away offers a joyride for uploading floor plans to Google.

To explore interior plans connected Google Maps, look for for the location you want to view and then zoom in. If floor plans subsist it will render. This is particularly effectual for shopping malls when you lack to see where a predictable store or the of the essence restrooms are situated, or finding departure Gates at airports.

Desktop versions of interior maps are not as full-conspicuous as the motile counterparts. In your browser you bathroom only stimulate the plans for the main floor of buildings, spell the Android mobile version Google Maps allows you to view additional level plans as advisable. This will reckon from building to construction.

It's no surprising that Google is guardianship the more advanced features of indoor maps on mobile. After all, chances are that's the device you will be using when you are going through an airport, rather than a laptop. But the helplessness of this solvent is that GPS on smartphones is not accurate and oft unavailable when indoors, making navigating indoor maps unpractical from your phone. In real time with admittance usable via your desktop browser you can view a mall or air terminal too soon.

It's unclear whether the indoor maps feature will pull in it into the Google Maps app reportedly being prepared for iPhones, as Google might need to keep certain features exclusive to its political platform in lodg to sway users.