Google Maps brings Street View to India relying on local partners

In a international first, Google is increasing the Street View capability of Maps to India while not having captured any records itself. Instead, it is depended on Genesys International and Tech Mahindra, that have blanketed over 150,000 km inside 10 towns: Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, and Amritsar. Google says the plan is to amplify Street View to extra than 50 Indian towns via way of means of the quit of the year.

To use Street View, open Google Maps, zoom right into a avenue in any of the aforementioned towns, and faucet the region you need to view. The Street View API has emerge as to be had to neighborhood builders too in this occasion.

Also in India, Google Maps is now displaying facts approximately pace limits shared via way of means of site visitors authorities, beginning in Bengaluru and Chandigarh. More towns need to get this withinside the future. Eight towns now get facts on avenue closures and incidents in Google Maps: Delhi, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Agra.

Google has additionally partnered with Bengaluru site visitors police to assist optimize their site visitors mild timings, and a pilot of this ended in an nearly 20% discount in congestion throughout all of the intersections. This might be scaling to all of Bengaluru, and the pilot is increasing to Kolkata and Hyderabad withinside the coming months.

Finally, in collaboration with the Central Pollution Control Board, Google Maps is displaying “authoritative air nice facts”, that allows you to be to be had via way of means of tapping the Layers button on the pinnacle proper and deciding on the Air Quality option.