Google maps now contains Aires in France??

[namwaldog]

Reading about Honfleur Aire on Fun this morning prompted me to have a look at it on Google Maps.
Opened Maps, typed " Honfleur " and up it came but with these symbols on.....

Tried searching for other Aires in France and they showed up as well.

Nothing showing at known Aires in Spain.

Symbols look very similar to the ones in Sweden that Jim described in a post the other day.

Need to Dump in Scandinavia?

A friend of mine runs a Motorhome forum in Sweden, and he's just sent me a map that he says might come in handy for any Funsters visiting Scandinavia. Don't worry too much about the language. A Green icon: A place where you can "drive over" and empty grey . Orange: Empty your cassette Both...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

I opened the site Jim listed in his post so I wonder if that somehow activated them all on Google Maps?

Viewing Google Maps on a Samsung Tab using Android

Barry

 

[Jim]

Those look like the symbols from the Scandinavian dump map, they are showing dump points that just happen to be on aires.

 

[Robert Clark]

You are seeing them because they now appear in ‘your places’ in Google Maps

It’s like an overlay

To remove them you need to close re open Google Maps