Today we know that Google Maps is using Live View AR Augmented Reality to calibrate The localization; one of the most popular novelties of the maps app and that arrived last year to receive directions through the phone's camera.
We already know that Big G has put the accent on Augmented Reality experiences as with Google Lens. It is in Google Maps where he is also working to help himself to improve the user experience of this great app that we have at the click of a button.
Improve the accuracy of your location on Google Maps
Apparently, Google believes that the GPS does not provide the necessary experience in 'dense' urban environments and where there is often too much interference with buildings. This solution given with Augmented Reality visually determines where one is in those urban areas where the GPS fails miserably.
It works in such a way that when Live View is launched on Google Maps, we are asked to point to buildings, street signs or other types of urban elements that we have near us. The reason for this is to try to know the direction in which we are looking.
You already know that to calibrate Google Maps always He has requested that movement in 8 with the mobile and that many times it seems that it doesn't even work. So now Maps allows us to "Calibrate with Live View" to improve the precision of that point in blue in Google Maps.
As you should know, the point that marks our location on Google Maps has a blue beam that indicates the direction we are facing, and according to the width of that beam the precision of our location is indicated. Smaller beams indicate greater precision.
How to calibrate the Google Maps compass with Live View AR
This option should already have it in Google Maps, so we are going to show you the steps to calibrate the compass properly and thus have greater precision when moving through an urban environment.
- We open Google Maps
- We better have the GPS activated
- Now we locate our position and we will see that beam in blue indicating the direction we are looking at. Surely it is very wide
- Click on the blue circular point
- A menu opens in blue with different options such as saving the parking location and the one that interests us
- We press about "Calibrate with Live View"
- Google Maps us request the permissions to be able to use the phone's camera and thus be able to use the Augmented Reality experience of the same
- Given permission we aim at a building or urban element that can be recognized by the Artificial Intelligence of Google Maps
- Those of you who are used to using Ar Core will see those disparate points that are generated throughout the architecture to identify the environment in which we are pointing the camera
- If it does not identify any building, it means that we are doing something wrong and that blank wall does not help
- We again point the camera at a distinctive element of our environment
- Now it should be right and identify where you are pointing
- Ready we can see as indicated in a message in the blue point that our precision in Google Maps is very high
This Live View option is available for all those mobiles that are compatible with AR Core, Android Augmented Reality and that should be available to many. A simple way to specify the location and thus Google Maps give us better references when traveling through urban areas where it is usually more difficult to pull the GPS; while we keep waiting for that new voice coming soon to Maps.