Google Maps For Android Now Lets You Explore The Great Indoors (And Find The Nearest Restroom)

Google Maps for Android is fantastic. Between its free GPS Navigation feature, speedy downloads thanks to vector-based maps, and offline caching, the app is leagues ahead of the Maps app on iOS. And it keeps getting better. Today, Maps for Android is getting upgraded to version 6.0, and it includes a long-anticipated feature that presents a huge technical challenge: indoor maps. Yes, you'll now be able to fire up Maps in some malls, airports, and department stores to get your bearings, complete that 'little blue dot' that shows you where you are. You'll be able to download the app from Android Market right here. Now, Google Maps has offered some basic indoor mapping functionality before now (as you can see in the left screenshot below). But the level of detail has always been seriously lacking, as has the accuracy of the blue dot. With this new release, Google has optimized its technology for indoor venues, so accuracy should be much?improved, as are the maps themselves. It'll even automatically detect what floor of a building you're on and adjust the map it's displaying accordingly.

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