Send Addresses from Google Maps to Your BMW

BMW and Google recently have reached an agreement to link the premium carmaker’s navigation system with Google Maps for faster and more comfortable route planning.

The new service, provided initially only in Germany as part of the BMW Assist navigation system, enable motorists to transfer address and telephone number data found on Google Maps directly onto the vehicle.

Users only need to click the Internet site http://maps.google.de to search for a local company or service operator. The data is then stored in the “My Info” function of the BMW Assist Menu.

At the press of a button the address is then programmed into the destination of the navigation systems. Alternatively the displayed telephone number could be dialed via the car cell phone

According to BMW, the advantage of the new systems is that addresses no longer need to printed out or written down on a notepad. The manual programming of the systems is no longer necessary as the data can be called up from the “My Info” menu.

Any address can be sought via the search function of the Google Maps in Germany. But BMW said it was planning to extend the service to other countries.