Google Maps Indoors Hits UK
Have you been to a large shopping centre and just found yourself totally lost? Yep. Me too. But now that Google Maps indoors has been launched for the UK, all that disappears!
If you find yourself lost then open the maps application and zoom in to your current location. You will notice a floor plan “magically” appear. It seems very sensible and very useful functionality and I will be trying it out on my next trip to the National History Museum.
For completeness the full list of currently mapped locations in Britain is (deep breath):
Finding your way around the Natural History Museum…and get to the predominantly female toilets faster.
- British Museum
- National Maritime Museum
- Harrods
- National Theater
- Victoria Albert Museum
- Museum of London
- Natural History Museum
- Courtauld Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery
- Victoria Station
- Euston Station
- Kings Cross Station
- Waterloo Station
- London Bridge Station
- Fenchurch Street Station
- Cannon Street Station
- Paddington Station
- Charing Cross Station
- O2 Arena
- Wembley Stadium
- BFI Southbank
- Barbican
- Ricoh Arena
- Somerset House
- John Lewis*
- Debenhams*
- Selfridges*
- House of Fraser*
- One New Change Shopping Mall
- Calbot Circus Shopping Center
- Liverpool Street Station
- St Pancras International
- Peter Jones – Sloan Sq.
- Airports:
- London City airport
- London Stansted airport
- London Luton Airport
- Manchester
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Birmingham
Via Google LatLong Blog and Android Police (who apparently don’t know about rain and think it’s funny to make jokes at the vitamin D suppressed British).
