Google Maps Updates

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We have built an ensemble of learned models to transliterate names of Latin script POIs into 10 languages prominent in India: Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, and Odia. Using this ensemble, we have added names in these languages to millions of POIs in India, increasing the coverage nearly twenty-fold in some languages. This will immediately benefit millions of existing Indian users who don't speak English, enabling them to find doctors, hospitals, grocery stores, banks, bus stops, train stations and other essential services in their own language.

Improving Indian Language Transliterations in Google Maps
 
Google is testing a new UI that looks cleaner but is not necessarily as intuitive as before.

Spotted by XDA Developers, the new interface eliminates the cluttered panel at the top and replaces it with a floating bar that includes fields for the starting point and the destination. The various modes of transportation — driving, walking, cycling, and public transportation — now rest in a scrollable list of cards at the bottom of the display. As seen in the screenshots below, the interface also brings the "Depart at" option out of the overflow menu and to the list at the bottom.



Google Maps is testing a not-so-intuitive routing screen
 
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