With a beta feature called Live View, you can use augmented reality (AR) to better see which way to walk. Arrows and directions are placed in the real world to guide your way.
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With my nickname of "wrong way Ken" during my 9-week travels through Britain just behind me, this would have been a godsend. Leaving each train station using the conventional Google Maps, the minutiae of micro instructions were useless and confusing, so I'd pick a likely direction and check 50+ yards out to the map to see my progress. And usually had to turn around. This could be quite helpful when using stair to a subway under tracks or a rotary intersection-that picture being worth a thousand words- and finding north on an overcast day is easier with a signpost to look for. Given a potential battery drain, I'd probably use it in brief spurts-my phone regularly ran out of juice after wandering about a British city or town by day's end. Wish it had been live the first of June - I'd have given it a workout.
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