Google releases Transit Navigation

Google has released Google Maps 5.7 for Android and added Transit Navigation (Beta), which currently provides over 12 billion miles of GPS-guided driving and walking directions per year. According to the company GPS turn-by-turn (or in this case, stop-by-stop) navigation is now available for public transit directions in 400+ cities around the globe.
April 20, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSS1691 Google has released Google Maps 5.7 for 1812 Android and added Transit Navigation (Beta), which currently provides over 12 billion miles of GPS-guided driving and walking directions per year. According to the company GPS turn-by-turn (or in this case, stop-by-stop) navigation is now available for public transit directions in 400+ cities around the globe.

Transit Navigation uses GPS to determine as user’s current location along their route and provides alerts when it’s time to get off or make a transfer. As the company points out, this is particularly helpful in a city where the users doesn’ts speak the language and can’t read the route maps or understand the announcements. After starting a trip with the software, a user can open another application or put the phone away entirely and Google Maps will still display an alert in the device’s notification bar and vibrate the phone when a stop is coming up.
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