Have you ever had to switch lanes at the last minute to make your exit, or while uncomfortably close to a flyover? Starting today, commuters in India can avoid these everyday hiccups with the new lane guidance feature on Google Maps for Android and iOS.
With the Google Maps app for iOS and Android, people will now be able to see and hear voice-guided instructions signaling which lane they should stay in or move to while in Navigation mode. This new Navigation feature within Google Maps for mobile will be available for major roads across 20 Indian cities: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Pune, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara and Visakhapatnam and on major expressways including the Mumbai-Pune expressway.
Let’s say you’re commuting to Noida via the the Delhi Noida Direct Flyway or taking the Western Expressway to get to Mumbai Airport. Using Navigation on Google Maps for Mobile, you can get turn-by-turn voice guidance on how to get there as quickly as possible. Now, as you approach any upcoming maneuvers, the new lane guidance feature will also display and provide voice-guided instructions highlighting the recommended lane you should be on to get to your destination.
To make this information more useful, we’d like to make it available to you in as many languages as possible. Starting today, you can enjoy the turn-by-turn, voice-guided instructions in English as well as Hindi. If you’d like to hear the instructions in Hindi, simply enable it as your preferred language. On Android, simply select the Hindi option within the “Language and input” menu found in your phone’s Settings menu. In addition to the English and Hindi, you can also opt into the English (India) language preference on your Android phones to hear the voice-guided instructions spoken back to you in English in the Indian accent.
Our goal is to continue making Google Maps for mobile into a handy travel companion for your daily commutes and trips around India, and we hope the new lane guidance will help make your road travels easier to navigate. To learn more about lane guidance availability, click here.
Posted by The Google Maps Team
