Google Maps received an update for its users in India that is allowing them to save and share their home addresses with Plus Codes. This update will help users get precise digital addresses of their residences that they can use for faster deliveries of their food, medicines, and parcels, without sharing any landmarks or voice instructions.
Addresses with Plus Codes can also be share with people for easy navigation.
Plus Codes are free, open-source digital addresses that are meant to provide accurate location details.
By using this update, you can now generate a Plus Code for your home address through Google Maps.
The app will show you a new Use your current location option when saving a Home location that will use your phone’s location to generate a Plus Code.
When save, the home location with the generate Plus Code can be shared directly from the Save tab on Google Maps.
In case you already have a location save as your Home on Google Maps, you will see a Plus Code alongside for precise details.
You can simply copy the Plus Code and paste it in your chat to provide precise location details of your home location to anyone you want.
The alphanumeric code will notably not include any of your personal details, such as your name and email ID.
Your home’s address is also save in your private Google Maps profile and is not available for public access as a nearby place on the app.
You can edit or remove your home address with Plus Code directly from Google Maps.
Google Maps has initially roll out the new experience for Android users.
It will also be available to iOS users in the coming days.
Google said that the India-first feature is design to provide accurate home addresses through Google Maps.
Google said that it initially piloted the feature in India a month ago.
Over 300,000 users in the country are already using it for their home addresses, as per company.
Amanda Bishop, Product Manager, Google Maps, in a prepared statement Said :
“We are looking forward to expanding to more types of places, and are actively looking for opportunities to partner with e-commerce, logistics, and delivery companies, to scale up the experience to more people across the world,”.
Google introduce Plus Codes as a solution to locate ‘hard to find’ places around the globe.
This technology was launch in India in March 2018.
Google Maps in 2020 introduce the ability to let users share their current location using Plus Codes by tapping the blue dot on the app.
