Google Maps could be getting this game changing feature

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Google Maps could be getting this game changing feature

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Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool, especially if you're trying to effigy out an surface area you're not familiar with. But jumping back and forth between dissimilar locations  isn't ideal, which is why this new "dock to bottom" feature sounds so appealing.

From the looks of things this is an experimental feature spotted by Search Engine Roundtable (via Android Police), which allows desktop users to salve locations to a dock at the bottom of a map. That manner it's easier to switch between locations you're checking out.

The feature works past offer upwardly a "Dock to bottom" button on a business profile, and clicking it pins that profile to the lesser of the screen. Like so:

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The characteristic seems to exist incredibly limited right now, so don't wait to find information technology on Google Maps just all the same. Some people have even reported seeing the feature, and not being able to replicate it after.

There's no guarantee that this feature will ever run into the low-cal of twenty-four hours. Google is well known for scrapping features at the experimental phase, and the fact some people can't replicate it isn't a good sign.

Still this is the kind of matter we'd like to encounter come up to Google Maps proper, and should make comparing locations easier than ever. Especially on mobile, where you don't accept the luxury of opening up different tabs. Only time volition tell.

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