Google Maps has made available a new option, destined to become the inseparable travel companion of professional and amateur cyclists. By accessing the App, in fact, you immediately notice the latest improvement: the addition of the icon of a bicycle. , which allows you to plan and follow a bike ride from one place to another.
, we are making it easier for cyclists from all over the world to get on their bikes ».
The news of this integration was given by the same US company in July 2020 and its commissioning seemed imminent. However, only in the last weeks of last year did the Google Maps bike service really come into full swing in our country.
Although the improvement took longer than expected, it is now available to everyone, in the hope that in 2021 the use of bicycles will be consolidated even more. purchase of bicycles and e-bikes through the Mobility Bonus, two wheels are experiencing a moment of unprecedented growing popularity by people of all ages.
More and more informed and demanding people who now have a new useful tool at their disposal to plan short, medium or long-haul trips, hoping to be able to do them soon in complete freedom and without limitations.
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An interactive and constantly improving service
The Google Maps option for bicycles is currently active in 30 countries around the world and in the places reached by the service. The popular travel App provides timely, precise and very useful information to cyclists, relying on information provided by local administrations, integrated to sophisticated technological systems such as deep learning and neural networks. The service is not static but in continuous evolution and improvement, thanks also to the possibility of individual users on two wheels to report any errors, variations or additions. "As the cycling habits change, especially with the "evolution of situations related to the Covid-19 pandemic, we constantly update this information to help discover the most reliable cycle path", the Californian company based in Mountain View reported.
As is already the case with maps intended for cars and public transport, therefore, also with regard to bicycles, the service offered to those who decide to use them is the result of a planning that, taking into account several possible factors, aims to offer more and more proposals for itineraries updated in real time.
Google Maps Bike: Parameters detected
Taking as an example a hypothetical journey from Milan to Turin, the information provided on the optimal route to take on two wheels takes into account the kilometers that separate the two cities, but also the differences in height and the number and difficulty of ascents and descents, the altitudes of the locations crossed, the turns to be made and the overall estimated time to get from point A to point B which, unlike what happens by car, is not subject to traffic jams or slowdowns due to motorized traffic.
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