Google Maps continues to improve: it begins to display traffic lights

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Google Maps continues to improve: it begins to display traffic lights 1

Google Maps is one of the most popular applications on Android, in addition to being one of the most improvement. One of the most recent changes in the application, that we can also enjoy in Spain, is her new voice a less robotic. Meanwhile, Google continues to introduce changes in its navigation app, as the ones that have begun to unfold already.

For now, Google Maps starts to show the location of traffic lights on the road. This is something that is in a phase of something initial, but you will begin to see as icons that indicate the presence of traffic lights when you are using the app of Google maps.

Google Maps shows traffic lights

Google Maps continues to improve: it begins to display traffic lights 2

Now, Google Maps starts to display those lights at the time of sailing, when you’re driving, as when you are simply looking at the streets in a particular city. In the case of simply consulting, the icons are quite small, so you will have to zoom to see them properly. In the navigation have a larger size, which makes it easier to see them.

Even though they are starting to show, when using the navigation, the application does not mention even anything about the traffic lights. The logical thing would be that in the near future the application will allow you to plan routes avoiding the most amount of traffic possible, but it seems that this is not something currently possible. The introduction of the traffic lights on the application is still in an initial phase.

Google Maps continues to improve: it begins to display traffic lights 3

In fact, only a few users have been able to see these lights in Google Maps. For that reason, everything indicates that the application is testing the introduction of this feature, but that is not ready in time for all to go to be able to use. Without a doubt, it could be a utility function in the application, especially now that improve the calculation of routes, which allow you to have routes that avoid the greatest number of traffic lights, ideal in city.

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