Google Maps wants to make planning your next trip as easy as screenshotting social media

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is adding a new tool that lets you prepare lists of destinations extracted from screenshots. Maps will analyze screenshots shared to its library, and can handle multiple locations on a single screen. The feature is first coming to iOS this week, with Android support following soon. Taking a screenshot is one of the most very basic things a smartphone can do, and while we’ve had the ability to do that for the better part of forever, recently screenshots have started becoming a lot more useful than just a quick-and-dirty way to share app content. Tools like Pixel Screenshots tap into the power of modern AI to extract actionable information from the mountain of screenshots we accumulate. Now Google’s sharing one of the next ways you might be finding a new use for screenshots, as it reveals a handy travel-planning tool for Maps. When we’re thinking about places we might want to go, inspiration arrives from all angles. Maybe you saw ... Read full article.