Google Maps 5.7 for Android adds Transit Navigation, better search, photo viewer [video]

By on Jul 7, 2011 at 2:01 AM
mobile July 7, 2011

Google took the wraps off of Google Maps 5.7 for Android devices on Wednesday, and the software update adds quite a few new features. The most noteworthy addition is Google’s Transit Navigation beta feature, which provides navigation instructions for public transportation in more than 400 cities around the globe. You don’t have to leave it open, either. Once you’ve started your trip, Transit Navigation will automatically remind you with an alert when your stop is coming up. Google also made it easier to find driving or walking directions in one click, improved search suggestions with category icons, and added a photo viewer to the Places feature of Google Maps. The update is available free from the Android Market for devices running Android 2.1 or newer. Hit the jump for a video of Transit Navigation beta in action.

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  • Anonymous

    Maps on Android continues to get better and better. Dead handy to have such a useful app available on my handsets.

  • Anonymous

    I am so jealous of Google Maps on Android.  Unless Google upgrades the iPhone version (which isn’t likely it seems) and brings a lot more of their apps to iOS (I would love to have Google Sky on my iPhone) i’m probably going to jump ship to Android as soon as my AT&T contract ends next year.

    • Anonymous

      GMaps is better on Android. But if you want something like Google Sky you should just go to the App Store and get Starwalk or one of the various others that do exactly the same thing.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks for the tip!  Not as jealous anymore lol

  • Anonymous

    I barely have a reason to use Telenav with Google providing such a good alternative.

    • Anonymous

      nobody uses telenav, it has been a joke from day one.

  • Anonymous

    Google Maps just keeps getting better.  Even though I have a navigation system in my car, whenever I need to go someplace, it’s usually much easier and more accurate to use Google Maps.

    • Mattyfromma

      the nice thing about google maps is the updates and service is free, updating your map software in your car is expensive.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AQ5HWJRNNOGYAM7ZPLXVC4EJ5I Nadine Barrett

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • TheRSLegend

    You forgot the new download maps for offline use feature… which doesn’t really work too well.

  • Anonymous

    Big deal.  I want a map app that when I touch a location (on the map, not myself), I get transported star trek style.

  • Lone McCord

    Hmmm, Will it work underground? Sorry, but most of Boston’s T is below ground…… unless this includes buses…. and that would be amazing

    • http://twitter.com/bigtexatx Bigtex ATX

      I managed to get mine to work while in Chicago in the underground parts. I think it’s going to just be random though.

  • Cer

    Shouldn’t she be wearing a Google tshirt?

  • Cer

    I like Android.

  • Anonymous

    i think this is the best navigation…now i relax to go on trip..
    http://www.iphoneonline.net

  • Errrg

    Despite the Google Maps offices being located in NYC, the examples are always in SF. What gives? Why not something more national – Peoria, IL, Madison, WI or even something international – Lorraine, Switzerland or Prague, CR? 

    Hubris of the west coast.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like a really good plan to me dude. Wow.

    http://www.total-privacy.ua.tc

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