This is a topic that has gone viral on the web in the space of a few days, since it addresses a problem common to many Italian motorists: according to what has been circulating online, Google Maps it would be able to report the presence of speed cameras and therefore prevent the risk of incurring fines for exceeding speed limits.
First of all, it is important to clarify one aspect of primary importance: the app does not have any specific function to identify electronic speed detectors installed along the roads. Nonetheless, by following some steps indicated in the guides that are multiplying online, there is a way to receive a notification that could be more than useful.
Generally speaking, in our country the systems used with the aim of identifying the speed cameras they are not all regulatory. In Italy it is forbidden to use devices capable of identifying the exact position of speed detection devices, while it is legal to report the places where the police could station themselves to carry out checks, i.e. those already reported in advance by signs announcing electronic control.
Given this, how should I proceed to benefit from speed camera notifications? If you have a device equipped with Android, you must first download another application to subsequently connect to Google Maps. The program in question is Tom Tom AmiGOand it is possible to find it directly on the Google Paly Store, from which it can be downloaded and then installed completely free of charge.
Once you have carried out these preliminary steps and opened the new app, the first step is to activate the “Overlay“, which will allow us to use Tom Tom AmiGO simultaneously with Google Maps: the synergy between the two programs will allow us to obtain notifications about speed cameras, following a very simple and intuitive path.
Once the application has been started, you will need to enable the localization of your electronic device and subsequently also the voice indications.
Once this is done, proceed by searching for the Map Mode area, and then enabling the overlay functions, ticking ON under “Allow display on top of other apps”. At this point you can also start the Google Maps application, on which, if all the steps carried out previously have been carried out correctly, the notifications will arrive directly.