Google has developed new tools and visualisations within Maps to help identify and avoid natural disasters.
Google has announced that it will soon be rolling out new visual tools and alerts in Google Maps to better visualise natural disasters, and help you both avoid and report them.
Currently, Google offers SOS alerts within Maps in specific natural disaster-prone locations, but, with the latest new features, the service has become a lot more visual and more useful. What is Google Maps AR navigation and how do you use it?
From a visual standpoint, the first major change offers hurricane forecast cones, earthquake shake maps and flood forecasts.
With these in place, you’ll be able to get a much better view of any hurricane, earthquake or flood that’s in your area.
With hurricanes, for instance, you’ll get a notification card in Google Maps that appears automatically when there’s a hurricane heading in the direction of your location.
Tap on the card, and you’ll see a hurricane forecast cone, and this shows the prediction of the storm’s trajectory, as well as timings for when it’s likely to hit specific cities or areas.
