Finding the Best Route to Your Destination

12 Apr Finding the Best Route to Your Destination

Google maps now offers driving directions with transportation options that instantaneously show up with the results. This is especially applicable for places that are covered by public transit and is suggested when this is a beneficial choice to consider. The information is also supposed to show you the travel time and the number of transfers involved. Conversely, if one is viewing directions in Google maps via public transit directions, suggestions for driving directions or taking a cab are noted.

Prior to this, one ascribes to both driving directions and transportation alternatives in Google maps by clicking on an a icon assigned to either option as they are presented separately. Now the information is combined and given to the user in just one view.

So when getting to New York’s Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd from the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd, Google maps will now show you both driving/cab directions together with the nearest subway station or bus that you can ride on as well the travel time and number of transfers needed to get to where you are going.

Google plans to use this update in more cities in the following weeks but is already presently applied to places like San Francisco, New York, Madrid and in Zurich.