Google Maps officially rolling out the Immersive View for Routes features in 15 cities. The firm further clarifies the process of how they fused billions of Street View and aerial images to create a rich, digital model of the world just to help you preview an entire route all at once.
Immersive View for routes is a feature that gives you all of the information you need about your journey like weather, traffic, location, and more in a single, multidimensional view. It doesn’t matter whether you’re walking, biking or cycling, it will help you out in the best way.
Now, you must be wondering the names of cities in which the latest feature is making its way, so the Immersive View for routes of Google Maps is starting to roll out in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, and Venice.
The company has gone through various obstacles to bring this advanced and helpful route-tracking tool to users. Firstly, they collected billions of high-resolution images, which feel like the world’s big zigzag puzzle, and then used machine learning to extract and label helpful information.
Further, the turns come of transforming 2D imagery into 3D, so that users can have a clear view, then started the process of creating a realistic and helpful route. Then the Google Maps trusted, real-world information was added and brought it all together.
Immersive View for Routes is now available in 15 cities. Here’s how we fused together billions of Street View and aerial images to create a rich, digital model of the world — helping you preview your entire route all at once ↓ https://t.co/FoY7OSKBil
— Google (@Google) November 3, 2023
