While Google Maps had always presented a flat view of the Earth, but now it represents a globe with landmasses of the appropriate dimension, and changing the traditional view to an interactive globe.
For the north and south, objects are distorted as the flat map makeup for the flattening of the Earth. Albeit, the most evident change is in the commonly used Mercator projections that represents the size of landmass at the equator, and Google isn't done tweaking the Maps as the app also has other new features in the works.
Among them is a nifty feature that shows battery level indicator in the infobox, which is generated during location sharing, though some users already feels the information is rather irrelevant as they'd care less about the battery level of their tracking target.
But the additional information provided by the Maps "Share Location" mode, will make it possible to understand how much autonomy remains to the user that is been tracked.
It can be pretty useful in the case of devices nearing full discharge, and shows that your target with battery at low percentage may eventually have a dead phone, so you don't have to be too worried if trying to call after some minutes and their device is unreachable.
Google Maps remains one of the must-have apps on any smartphone, as it helps with effective navigation and even on Apple's devices, since their alternative maps couldn't quite measure up to its capabilities.
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