Now Google Maps India gives you directions like a local would

By at December 17, 2009 | 10:20 pm | Print

Now Google Maps India gives you directions like a local would. It describes routes in terms of easy-to-follow landmarks and businesses that are visible along the way.Over the course of several months, the google brainstormed various ways of presenting the information contained in Google Maps in a way that would be useful for people. Now they settled on a design that added some landmarks to describe the turns and confirm the route.

They added more landmarks along routes and reduced the visual prominence of street names, and the result was its final design like this:

More at:http://maps.google.co.in/

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