Latest Google Maps update improves app for cyclists

Have you used Google Maps to find a good cycling route before? It probably didn’t always end up being the quick ride you imagined. In a trio of new updates, Google has now improved its navigation app for cyclists, which will now display the elevation along the chosen route and alert you to high gradients, heavy car traffic and even stairs. Cycling directions on Google Maps are now also more detailed, showing you the type of road you will be biking on and whether it has a marked bike lane, the company wrote in a blog entry. In a second update, Google has added “photorealistic aerial views of ne…

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