This new Google Maps feature may completely change how you use the app
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- Google Maps has launched a new Facebook-style news feed within the app, incorporating recommendations and suggestions from Maps users.
- The feed builds on other tools Google has added to Maps this year that help people learn more about the places they want to go to, which they can then use Google Maps to help them actually navigate to.
- 2020 is the 15th anniversary of Google Maps.
One of the things I’ve been fascinated to watch over the past year or more, in a way that certainly pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic, is the extent to which Google has woken up to all the latent potential inside one of its least-sexy apps, but one which is almost as utilitarian and relied upon as the company’s signature search app. I’m talking, of course, about Google Maps, which celebrated its 15th anniversary earlier this year by rolling out