- Google Maps is testing the launch of more incident reports
- These are climate related options such as ‘flooded road’ or ‘low visibility’
- The growing incident library is a source of discomfort for some drivers
Google Maps is introducing new incident report options, new additions that belong to weather -related conditions.
The Android Police saw these new types of reports, and include characters such as ‘Road flooded’ for when there has been a great flood of rain or ‘low visibility’ for when fog fly. And, in fact, ‘road without filling’ for when, well, it probably should turn around and find a plowed path that is not deeply in the snow.
The site noticed these new options on Google Maps for Android Auto First First, and then in the iPhone application.
The news not so great for those interested in being able to benefit from a broader variety of adverse events that are reported is that these new presentations have not yet reached the Android version of Google Maps.
However, surely it will not spend much time before the ability to inform a flooded or snowy path comes to Android.
Is it an increasing library of incidents?
This is a continuous expansion of incident reports on Google Maps, in addition to clearly marked Waze reports that are paid together with native reports since last year. There is already a wide range of incidents that can be marked, such as traffic accidents, stagnant cars, closed lanes, speed traps, etc.
Sometimes, these types of alerts can be very useful, of course, and many people are grateful to have been warned of an incoming problem on the way ahead.
However, not everyone is interested in being subject to more and more of these reports that stand out in Google Maps, with which complaints about them are too frequent that can only be multiplied, since Google further expands the library of the library of incidents that can be informed.
The problem is aggravated by wandering reports, incidents that are not there or resolved some time ago, and there is no easy way to turn off such reports.
However, it seems that this is a path that Google insists on driving down, however, despite the fact that ‘stop’ signs are agitated by some of the drivers who use their navigation application.
