Google Maps, which has always been quietly updated to bring many convenient navigation and local information functions, recently brought a bunch of practical functions – although many of them are currently limited to the United States, they are still worth knowing and looking forward to. Continue reading Google Maps will mark busy areas, and the new “Business Guide” will help you easily navigate the content of large department store reports.
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Google Maps will mark busy areas, and the new “Business Guide” will help you easily navigate large department stores
Although the epidemic situation has gradually cooled down, Google Maps still hopes to help you understand the crowd situation as much as possible. It even provides a pickup function that can make ordering food and shopping faster and more convenient, and provides more accurate and easy-to-use map information. The first thing I want to mention is that the editor has confirmed that the “Business Directory” function is available in Taiwan. In fact, its concept is just like the floor information signage or information system on the first floor of a department store. In a large department store, all internal business information is integrated into one column.
You can see the new “Business Guide” appear on the Overview, Latest News, Photos and Reviews tabs of a landmark location. What’s even better is that it not only lists all stores, but can also filter categories by clothing, restaurants, shoes, etc., and can even search for locations within this location. To put it simply, if you want to stay in a certain department store as much as possible due to various factors (lazy, cold or hot weather), it is a good time to open Google Maps to directly find the next place to go or the shopping target.
▲Picture: In fact, Google Maps has been providing similar displays for a period of time regarding the busyness of a single location.
Google Maps has once again harnessed the power of big data from its huge user base. Not only will “Busy Areas” that are currently extremely crowded be displayed on the map, you can quickly obtain the real-time status if you want to join in the fun or simply avoid such occasions.
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Finally, it is currently confirmed that it is only available in the United States, but the editor believes that Taiwanese stores can also consider the service provided by cooperating with Google Maps – cooperative stores will start to provide estimated arrival time information for consumers picking up goods. For the restaurant price information that has been collected for a while, the figures and distribution of “consumption per person” have also begun to be displayed through the Google Maps interface. It has to be said that as the information collected by Google Maps becomes more and more abundant, it can be applied in more comprehensive ways to improve the convenience of life.
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