For some time now, it seems that large companies that have their own map service, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple are focusing to add more services and functions to these applications, although at a very different pace, since Apple takes it very calmly and little by little it adds new functions while Google, as a general rule, every time it launches a new function or service it does so globally. joint. However, far from wanting to enter the war for the use of maps, Microsoft is at its own pace and in the latest update it has just added a large number of new features.
These updates are available for all devices that currently they are compatible with Windows 10 in all its versions, whether mobile, tablet, desktop and soon Xbox, when it arrives in just over a month it will reach the video game platform.
Main:
- Possibility to search for cities in 3D view.
- If we have Cortana activated and we start the browser, we will receive the instructions in English (United States and United Kingdom), Chinese, French, Italian, German and Spanish from Spain.
- The results that the searches show us can be minimized as well as the indications and the information about our position to be able only the map.
- We can also add notes to the addresses that we want to remember to be able to access them offline.
- The information on public transport is now simpler and easier to use, since it shows us the route turn by turn and we can quickly know where we want to get off.
- The user interface has also been improved
Windows Maps is available for download in the Microsoft app store completely free of charge.