{"id":34492,"date":"2021-02-18T10:46:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=34492"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:11:10","slug":"google-maps-will-help-you-pay-parking-and-transit-fees-ahead-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/future\/google-maps-will-help-you-pay-parking-and-transit-fees-ahead-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps will help you pay parking and transit fees ahead of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps today announce a few updates to help you get around town without having to slow down to pay at a parking meter or wait in line for a train ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced integration with ParkMobile and Passport, allowing you to pay for your parking meter in some cities right within Maps. Once you arrive at your location, you\u2019ll see a \u2018Pay for Parking\u2019 button in maps.<\/p>\n<p>Enter your meter number and payment info, and you\u2019re good to go. Likewise, you can extend the time on your meter via Maps as well.<\/p>\n<p>Given we are all trying to prevent unnecessary touching nowadays, I love this mean you do not even have to get hold of a parking meter or switch to a different program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/development\/the-continuing-evolution-of-google-maps\/\">Google Maps<\/a> also now permits you to pay fares&#8221;for over 80 transit services around the globe.&#8221; For a Number of them, that means you will Have the Ability to pay for your deliveries before you get to a train, employing the cards connected to a Google Purchase account.<br \/>\n<span class=\"seethis_lik\"><span>Also read:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/review\/magic-school-ai\/\">Everything You Need To Know About Magic School AI<\/a><\/span>\n<p>In the event of New York City&#8217;s subway system, you are going to observe a reminder which now you can use contactless payments on the subway &#8212; something I have very much come to love in this era of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34493 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/19124910\/Google-map.jpg\" alt=\"Google map\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/19124910\/Google-map.jpg 600w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/19124910\/Google-map-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/19124910\/Google-map-27x17.jpg 27w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/static.the-next-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/19124910\/Google-map-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ability to pay for parking arrived today for 400 cities in the US \u2014 Google specifically mentions\u00a0Boston, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C \u2014 while for iOS the feature is \u201ccoming soon.\u201d Transit payments are set to launch \u201cin the coming weeks\u201d on Android \u2014 no word on iOS yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps today announce a few updates to help you get around town without having to slow down to pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":34498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[2327,3502,3265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34497,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492\/revisions\/34497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/34498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}