14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of Google Maps was made available for download for all owners of mobile phones running under Android 1.6 or higher, namely Google Maps 4.6. The new release comes with a new Place page reviews design, additional search results filtering, and more.
According to the development team, they were focused on providing users with more ways in which they would find nearby places with Google Maps for Android, and the new release is a continuation of that effort.
“Lately, we’ve been working on giving you even better ways to find nearby places with Google Maps for Android, such as the Places icon and rich Place pages,” a recent post on Google Mobile Blog reads.
“Today, we are launching Google Maps 4.6 with a new design for Place page reviews, more options to filter search results, and a Google Latitude real-time updating option.”
The Place pages on Android Maps was reshaped so as to offer a similar design for showing reviews as the Place pages on desktop computers does.
When accessing the said page, users would see:
- “Reviews from around the web” for highlighting sites that have high-quality reviews about the place. - “Reviews from Google users” for reviews posted directly to Google Maps by other users.
The search results can now be better filtered, the development team notes. According to the said post, users can now filter results by Open now, Neighborhood and Related searches, in addition to the already available distance and ratings options.
Another important feature included in the new Google Maps 4.6 for Android is Google Latitude real-time updating.
“In Latitude, you can also choose an experimental “Real-time updating” option from an individual Latitude friend’s profile page to help meet up with them by temporarily seeing faster location updates (friends must have Maps 4.6 and Android 2.2+),” the development team notes.
Google Maps 4.6 for Android 1.6 and above can be downloaded from the Android Market in all areas where Maps is already available.
