While the Tour de France may just have completed its final lap around the Champs Elysees, our Maps team continues to pedal ahead at top speed. Want to avoid that brutal Mountain Stage while you’re cycling to work? The latest version of Google Maps for Android update puts elevations in bike directions, so you can arrive with leg muscles intact.number of countries in Europe , from Austria to the United Kingdom. It proved to be a popular feature among cycling amateurs and enthusiasts and we’ve expanded the product to cover almost the entire continent. Enthusiastic users have added hundreds of kilometers of biking paths through Google Mapmaker. StreetView , starting in Saint-Étienne and climbing into the Alps to finish at Chamrousse . And if you want to say au revoir to Le Tour de France, look below, or click on an EarthView on the Champs Élysées . Posted by Gareth Evans, Communications Manager, London
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