Google celebrates Bike to Work month with new bike layer in Maps Navigation
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Biking directions previously launched on the desktop, but is much more useful on Android devices that you can physically mount to your bike. You will now see a bike icon next to the car, bus, and pedestrian in Google Maps Navigation and after tapping the bike icon you will see the bicycling layer appear on the map with dedicated bike-only trails, roads with bike lanes, and roads that are good for biking and lack a dedicated lane.
The Navigation shortcut places the blue icon on one of your Home screens so you do not have to go through various menus to launch Google Maps Navigation. The sharing feature lets you send a search results page to your friends via email, text, Facebook, Twitter, or Google Buzz.