{"id":315583,"date":"2019-08-06T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=315583"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:53:28","slug":"new-travel-features-coming-to-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/315583-new-travel-features-coming-to-google-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"New travel features coming to Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/travel\/answer\/9337634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it has shut down its Trips app, with users no longer able to access the application&#8217;s features as of 5 August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would migrate features previously found in Trips to its Search and Maps applications following the discontinuation of the travel app.<\/p>\n<p>Users can find personal Trips information such as notes and saved places in Search, and some of this data will also be available within Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Within Google Maps, users can find things to do in a destination &#8211; such as iconic places, city guide lists, events, or restaurants &#8211; by swiping up on the &#8220;Explore&#8221; tab or searching for a destination.<\/p>\n<p>Google added that trip reservations would soon be added to the Maps app, allowing users to organise their bookings from within the application.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/315401-google-android-search-engine-auction.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Android search engine auction<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced that it has shut down its Trips app, with users no longer able to access the application&#8217;s features as of 5 August 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":198684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,14119,26232,60357],"class_list":["post-315583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-maps","tag-travel-app","tag-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}