Google Maps is getting a better Immersive View to help you plan trips #GeekLeap

Google Maps is getting an enormous enhance to its spectacular Immersive View Mode that will help you plan routes and journeys utilizing its fowl’s-eye view.

Introduced at Google I/O 2023, which you’ll be able to comply with at our Google I/O 2023 liveblog, Google Maps Immersive View for routes will deliver you a 3D view of your deliberate journey – for instance, a motorcycle experience or drive. This will provide you with a clearer real-world view of the neighborhoods you are going by way of, plus different info like site visitors, air high quality, temperature and extra.

This all sounds much more helpful than Google Maps’ conventional overhead view, and may be a really useful software for planning pictures journeys. However on condition that many people are nonetheless ready for the primary model of Immersive View to roll out, it might be some time earlier than you can begin utilizing it to plan journeys.

Google says it would start rolling the characteristic out for just a few cities this summer time (in different phrases, between now and August), and can ultimately cowl 15 cities “by the tip of the 12 months”. These will embody Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Seattle, and Venice.

We have beforehand known as Google Maps Immersive View a “next-gen Road View”. That is as a result of it makes use of a mix of Road View and aerial imagery to offer you digital recreations of cities in Google Maps, full with real-time info. 

The truth that that is all coming to route planning, moderately than simply vacationer sights in main cities, is nice information, and will make piecing collectively journey plans much more intuitive.