There’s also a “Trips” tab that gathers together places visited, including the option to export them as a list if you want to pass them on as travel recommendations.Īlternatively, if you don’t like the reminder of how much data Google Maps is capable of collecting about you over time, you can turn this off (and lose access to the new Timeline features) by disabling Location History on your phone.įinally, Google is also offering more review options for restaurants in the US, with new prompts to share information about meal pricing and whether you got takeout and delivery. Google is also adding a couple of new features to Maps’ Timeline section on Android, which is accessible by tapping your profile image and then selecting “Your Timeline.” A new “Insights” tab shows trends about the amount of time and distance you’ve spent using different transport methods and the places you’ve visited. The feature works using data provided by transit agencies themselves, and Google says it plans to expand the capability to more cities soon.Ī new timeline feature shows details about past journeys. In these cities users will see how crowded individual train carriages are instead of just general crowding on the transit line. Image: GoogleĪs well as expanding the crowdedness predictions to more cities, Google is also making them more granular in New York and Sydney. Google is testing giving information on the crowdedness levels of individual carriages. Google says it anonymizes the location history data used. Crowdedness information is generated from a mixture of historical location data, as well as self-reporting from Maps users on individual trains. Google Maps’ crowdedness information originally launched pre-pandemic in 2019, but over the past year social distancing has made it more important than ever.
As well as crowdedness, Google says Maps is also being updated to offer more information about past travel. The number of cities covered is increasing from around 200 today, to “over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries,” the company says. Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding.
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