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India is the country where roads are not properly marked and for outside visitor reaching some place is a big problem. If you too are looking for the place where you want to go but does not know the route exactly just search Google maps before your move .Here Google has started offering driving directions by indicating famous landmarks and road names. No needs to find someone who will let you know that you are going in right direction. Browse Google maps from your handset and check out the nearest landmark and reach your destination without difficulty.

Sometimes the situation in India become more worst when somebody go out of station
Where no one is familiar with your language and you are also not able to express yourself just by using gestures than Google maps are the only solution. Now Google maps prove to be best guide for finding and reaching the destination. As people in India areculturally inclined to navigate using landmarks

The Google product manager Manik Gupta has clarified that this feature will soon be introduced to other countries too as it will prove to be a helpful feature.
Google Maps has started offering driving directions in India using landmarks, rather than road names alone.

Google maps will now showcase the famous landmarks like traffic signals, petrol pumps, banks, schools, railway station, bus stops, local business,

In this Google’s strong contenders Yahoo and Microsoft have already offer maps with both landmarks and road names in India. Google took extra time in releasing this feature as the company wanted to get the user interface and the appropriate structure of the data before launching it. Google collects landmark data through “Points of Interest” created by users in Google Map Maker. Google sees user created data as more accurate because of the strong moderation system, including peer review, in Map Maker.

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