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Google Maps has received another update to Android and Android Auto, only this time, the big changes seem to specifically target the mobile version of the app.
Google has been working hard to polish the experience with Google Maps lately, and after rolling out version 10.50.4 on September 20, the company released another update to version 10.51.1 on September 22.
It’s worth noting that this is the first version 10.51, and while a changelog was not originally provided, Google just announced a new feature that would be enabled for all users starting this week.
Google Maps will show a new layer option in the application that will allow users to see more information about the health problem that we are all trying to solve these days. More specifically, the map will show the seven-day average of new confirmed cases per 100,000 people for each area you are exploring, and this is supposed to help each and every one of us make more informed decisions when it comes to traveling to a specific destination.
The new option is available on the Google Maps layer screen and uses color codes to indicate regions with a large number of new cases.
“Color coding also helps you easily distinguish the density of new cases in an area. Trending case data is viewable at the country level for all 220 countries and territories that Google Maps supports, along with data at the state / province, county, and city level, where available.”Google explains.
The information that Google Maps displays on the map is imported from various sources, including John Hopkins, the New York Times, and Wikipedia, which in turn obtain data from a wide variety of sources such as the WHO and ministries of health around the world. .
Google says the new layer will appear on both Android and iPhone starting this week.
