Google has
introduced a new lane guidance feature for its Maps application on
Android and iOS in India. The updated app will now allow users to hear
voice-guided instructions which will show the user the lane they should stay in
or move into while using navigation mode.
The new feature will be
available for major roads in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai,
Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Mysore,
Nagpur, Pune, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara and Visakhapatnam. App users
will also receive lane guidance on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. The feature
is available in English and Hindi.
Commenting on the launch, Suren Ruhela, Director Product and
Program Management, Google said, “Our
goal is to continue making Google Maps for mobile into a handy travel companion
for your daily commutes and trips around India, and we hope the new lane
guidance will help make road travels easier to navigate for English and Hindi
speaker across the country.”
The launch of lane guidance within Google Maps for mobile is the
part of the tech giant’s effort to make the service more useful for users in
India. Earlier reports suggested that Google
Maps is available in Hindi for Android and PCs. To view Hindi names on
Google Maps, users will need to enable Hindi as the preferred language on their
devices.
On the desktop version
of the app, users will have to click on the settings wheel at the bottom
before changing the language preference to Hindi. Other regional languages
supported are Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.
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