25 non-US cities can now use Google Maps to ease parking….Not Lagos yet.

Google announced that people in 25 additional cities outside of the United States can use parking difficulty icons on Google Maps for Android and iOS. These cities join the following US cities: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas/Fort Worth, DC, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa.

The non US cities are Alicante, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dusseldorf, London, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Milan, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Toronto, Valencia, Vancouver.

You will notice that no African city is in the list. Sigh!

While waiting for this feature to come to Africa, the difficulty icons can help ease the stress of parking.

To see how hard it might be to park where you’re headed, just get directions to your destination and look for the parking difficulty icon in the directions card at the bottom of the screen. Parking difficulties range from limited to medium to easy and are based on historical parking data with a little machine learning magic.

Find Parking
Since parking can be unpredictable, Google is rolling out the ability to find parking near your destination on Google Maps for Android.

Al you have to do is tap “find parking” on the directions card to see a list of parking garages and lots near their destination. Once you tap your selected option, it’s automatically added to your trip. And you will even get walking directions from the parking spot to your final destination.

With parking difficulty icons, the ability to find parking, and save your parking location on the map, Google Maps gets you from point A to point B and everything in between.