Google is expanding its Immersive View feature and adding search to Live View. It’s also introducing a feature to help you get a quick feel for a neighborhood.
Google is continuing its never-ending work of enhancing Maps, with four new updates coming to the app on Wednesday.
First up, the team has been working to expand the coverage of Immersive View. Google started rolling out the feature in July, offering remarkably detailed 3D fly-arounds of famous landmarks and layering it with useful information such as the weather, traffic conditions, and the general busyness of the area. It can do this for the current time or, by examining historical trends, for a future date. Immersive View also lets you zoom in from an aerial view right into, say, a restaurant of interest, at which point the software flips to Street View to take you right inside, if the imagery is available.
Wednesday’s update promises Immersive View for more than 250 new locations that include global landmarks such as Japan’s Tokyo Tower, and the Acropolis in Greece.
