Local guide recommendations added to Google Maps

Mobile Internet users will be able to access local guide recommendations for strange and unusual places in several cities (such as New York, shown here). — AFP Relaxnews

Google Maps will soon test a new functionality that allows you to access recommendations from top local guides in nine major tourist cities. The goal is to enable mobile Internet users to gain quick access to reviews of restaurants and various attractions that are worth a visit.

An initial testing phase will shortly begin in Bangkok (Thailand), Delhi (India), London (Britain), Mexico City (Mexico), New York and San Francisco (the United States), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Tokyo and Osaka (Japan). The best local guides selected from among the most active contributors to Google Maps, will directly appear in the applications "For You" tab. Thereafter you will be able to "follow" the guides so as to have access to all of their recommendations, reviews, photos and lists directly in Maps.