Maps Lets You Search For Food, Gas and More Along Your Navigation Route

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 20 Oct 2015

Google Maps is your best friend. When it comes to satisfying that coffee craving or finding the cheapest gas during your road trip.

The latest version is the 11.18.3 update. Maps will factor such stops into your overall trip. Give you helpful details like local points of interest, eco-friendly routing, and Live View.
Maps will also recalibrate your journey to factor any detours into the trip. This way, you don’t need to reenter your destination details and start the entire navigation event from scratch.

Stop off the freeway for a cup of joe or some needed gas without disrupting Maps’ navigation tools.

The search icon works as a floating action button. Popping out with options for gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, coffee shops, and places of interest. Touch the icon again if there’s another place. You want to stop at that who don’t fit into those categories.

You can do a general search for points of interest even if you’re not using the navigation. However, prices aren’t always available for everything. It will depend if the particular place or business. You are looking for has added all their details to the maps.
Google Maps 11.18. 3 is available for users in the Play Store. Users who have an auto-update app will receive the newest versions without searching.

The impact on you is an excellent benefit of Android is the speedy Map feature rollouts. It tends to bring new tricks to Android first because it can. So, there are often many minor tweaks hidden in each update. It’s worth playing around with the latest versions to see what you can do with apps that have been updated.