New Menu for Desktop Google Maps
 

New Menu for Desktop Google Maps
If you like Google Maps' mobile apps for Android and iOS, there's a good news: the desktop site **w has a similar interface. The search box has a small icon for directions and a**ther icon for the navigation menu, which lets you enable layers for satellite imagery, traffic, transit, bicycling, terrain, use My Maps, share maps, print maps and more.


The new hamburger-style menu adds features that were previously scattered in at least 4 other places: 2 menus at the bottom of the page, a satellite thumbnail and the search box.


Here's the old interface: the "getting around" card for layers, a small thumbnail for switching to satellite imagery (still available in the new UI), a help menu and a gear menu for sharing maps, Google Web History and search settings.


A**ther change is that you can switch to the lite mode, which replaces the old Google Maps:

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