The ‘Area Business’ feature was announced last month. This feature shows live business trends on Google Maps to show the most busy areas of the city. Business trends have been claimed that they are based on the location history. Google collects it through those who have chosen it from their Google account.
In a blog post, Google has explained that with the help of this data, it can be calculated that some place is usually so busy in every hour of the week.
Such places on Google Maps have been given the label of “busy area”. The entire chart of the busy area can be seen by a tap. With the information of restaurants, shops and other places in the area, the chart shows how busy the area is at different times of the day.
Google has confirmed Units 360 that the area business feature is now available for users around the world and India is also part of this rollout.
Information related to business is part of Google Maps since 2016. It can be found by tapping a particular place on Google Maps. Last year too, Google Maps introduced indicators showing busy and less busy areas on their platform.
The new update has come up with the onset of the Omikron variant of the corona virus. With the help of this feature, people can avoid going to crowded places.