Now you can seek for merchandise inside Google Maps

Google is including a handful of latest options to Maps in time for the vacations, together with the flexibility to seek for particular merchandise inside the app itself. If you happen to want a sweater on your annual ugly sweater occasion, new garments or some last-minute items, as an illustration, you possibly can kind the merchandise in Maps’ search bar to convey up close by shops the place you could possibly discover what you are on the lookout for. From the outcomes that pop up, you possibly can choose one of many choices after which lookup instructions. Google says you possibly can seek for all kinds of things from Maps, similar to electronics, residence items and even grocery gadgets.

The corporate has additionally up to date Maps to permit you to report and see delays impacting your transit traces, in addition to to indicate extra particulars, similar to alternate transit routes and subway station entrances. Maps will present studies for climate disruptions like unplowed or flooded roads and low visibility areas, as nicely. As well as, Google is including the flexibility enter your automobile’s dimensions in its built-in Maps app to indicate routes that do not have bridges or tunnels you possibly can’t clear. For now, although, these routes are solely accessible on the 2024 Chevy Tahoe, Chevy Suburban and GMC Yukon. The corporate says it should develop the function’s functionality to extra automobile fashions sooner or later.

If you happen to’re driving an EV and lookup routes with charging stops in your telephone, now you can ship the route you have selected to your automobile with built-in Google Maps. Lastly, if you wish to keep away from crowds while you exit, you possibly can take a look at Maps’ Fashionable Instances information to see visitors developments at particular instances.