Google combines best of Maps with Now for new travel app: report

Google combines best of Maps with Now for new travel app: report

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google's cooking up a new travel app that combines the best of Maps with Now, the company's prescient personal assistant, Engadget reports.

Except Trips, as it's apparently called, is not quite ready for primetime (or the Google Play store) as of yet. News of the app's existence comes via Dutch site AndroidWorld which obtained screenshots of Trips from Local Guides users, a community-driven offshoot of Google Maps.

The app, which is purportedly in testing at the moment, works by trawling a user's Gmail to create bundles of travel data. So all of your flight, hotel, dining and sightseeing reservations will be collected in one convenient and shareable package, Engadget says. While Trips is said to automatically scour a user's email account to build out an archive of past and upcoming travel, it should also allow users to manually build out bundles and itineraries.

Of course, this being a Google app, there's also a recommendation feature that can offer suggestions for things to do nearby, sights to see, places to eat or even map out directions using various modes of transport, the technology news website says. Trips will also allow users to leave feedback and even post photos on places of interest much like a living guidebook. All that said, there's no official word on when Google will release Trips to the public, if at all, according to Engadget.

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