Google Maps has recently been updated with a feature, which you probably already know on Android and iOS. Thanks to the popular navigation application it is possible find rental bikes in your city. A function that we can also use in its version on the computer without any problem, as we show you below.
This feature on Google Maps is a good way to find out if the city you live or are on vacation in has rental bikes, as well as where you can get them. So that you can plan your visit at all times and use a rental bike to move around the city at all times.
At the moment the number of cities that has this function is somewhat limited. There are a total of 24 cities in 16 different countries. The complete list of cities is as follows: Barcelona, āāBerlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New Taipei City, Rio de Janeiro , San Francisco Bay Area, SĆ£o Paulo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich. In all of them you can use the function.
Although Google Maps has already promised that they will expand the number of cities over time. So if your city is not among these 24 now, in a few months it will probably be. Although we will have to wait for the company to announce its deployment in the coming months. First you also have to test that this works correctly.
Find rental bikes with Google Maps
To do this, we will have to open Google Maps in the browser on our computer. Depending on the city, we may know the name of this rental service, like BiciMad in the case of Madrid. If the name of the city bike rental service is unknown, because you are a tourist, you can simply enter rental bikes in the search, being already on the map in the city in question where we are. Since the application will show you the closest stations.
On the map you will be able to see where there are places to get these rental bikes. So you can easily see which of them is the closest to your current location. In addition, if we click on it, we can see a data that is of great importance for users. As the number of bikes available is displayed in real time at that station. So we can know if it is worth going to it or not. This information is kept up to date at all times.
In the event that there is not one available in it, Google Maps tells us which station is the closest to us at that time, so that we can take a bike from it. So it will be very simple at all times to be able to know how many bikes are available in the same. This is an important piece of information, especially if you go with more people and you will need several bikes. Since it may be the case that in a specific station there are not enough bikes for everyone.
As you can see, thanks to this new function in Google Maps it is very easy to find rental bikes in a city. You will be able to move in a better way in this way, ideal if you intend to go on vacation or if you are already in a certain city and want to be able to move using the bike in that city. The function can be used both on computer and in the app on Android and iOS. The operation is the same in both cases, so that you will not have any problem with the operation of it. What do you think about this new service already available in the navigation app?