A new update will be released shortly for Google Maps (which could have already started) in which the great addition that will be of the game is the possibility of making route changes depending on the traffic state at all times. Therefore, its usefulness increases considerably.
The announcement is official since it has been made in the profile of the development itself on the social network Google+. And, from what has been indicated, the versions that will offer this possibility at first are those specific to Android and also for iOS (for which a specific link is provided). The rest will have to wait and, little by little, they will receive the update when the Mountain Viewers develop it.
Obviously, in the case of terminals with the Android operating system, the version of Google Maps will be updated automatically and, even in some locations, this would have already started to be carried out (at least this is what the users indicate). The fact is that the possibility of making changes in the routes due to traffic is something expected to occur since the Mountain View company bought Waze For one thousand million of dollars.
The truth is that little by little the most notable features of Waze, an Israeli company, have been integrated into Google Maps, but the speed with which this is happening has been slower than expected. What's more, to this day the Waze application continues to work independently of the services of the Mountain View giant, something that from now on it will be necessary to see how long it remains like this, since one of the great services it offered was precisely the possibility of vary established routes based on traffic reports existing (in which the users themselves intervene).
In short, an update of the most interesting for Google Maps has officially arrived that will now be much more useful because it integrates the possibility of varying routes due to traffic and, in addition, it is shown that the intention of this company was to "choose" the best of Waze, which was why he bought it in August of last year. Now just wait for you upgrade is deployed in all places, something that on the other hand is imminent.
Source: Google Maps