Google Maps tests new icons to indicate access to buildings

Google Maps is testing new icons to indicate with a green arrow which are the entrances to buildings, which improves navigation and speeds up the search for the entrance and exit doors of said spaces.

The company has been working on new features for its mapping application for months, one of its most recent innovations being the introduction of large language models (LLM), which analyze the more than 250 million places that contains the service.

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Now, Google is working on a series of icons with which it hopes to improve navigation in the application and speed up access to certain buildings, inserting a series of icons that indicate where their doors are located.

This has been verified by Android Police in version 11.17.0101 of Google Maps downloaded on a Google Pixel 7a device, which has warned that the entrances to buildings are only shown with a green arrow when a place is selected on the map and it has been zoomed in on it.

At the moment it is unknown when Google will implement this identification system globally and if it will reach all Android devices, beyond Pixels.

Source: Elcomercio

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