Maps
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps – By Ben Stockton How-To Geek
Google Maps is great for getting directions, but if you’re off-road and can’t find your way home, you’ll need to improvise. Thankfully, it’s possible to use Google Maps to find your direction of travel if you get lost. Here’s how.
Find Your Parked Car with Google Maps
How to Save and Find Your Parked Car with Google Maps – By Cory Gunther How-To Geek
We’ve all parked our cars on the street or in a random parking garage and then struggled to find it a few hours later. Don’t get caught wandering around tapping the button on your key fob, hoping to find it. Instead, use Google Maps to save and find your parked car quickly.
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps – By Ben Stockton How-To Geek
Google Maps is great for getting directions, but if you’re off-road and can’t find your way home, you’ll need to improvise. Thankfully, it’s possible to use Google Maps to find your direction of travel if you get lost. Here’s how.
– How to find elevation on Google Maps
How to find elevation on Google Maps – By Alan Truly Android Police
Google Maps is a wonderful tool filled with interesting details about locations around the world, and one of the most useful things to know about an area is its elevation. You might expect it to be easy to find elevation measurements on Google Maps, but it’s somewhat hidden.
Google Maps speed limit data is more thoroughly vetted than you’d think
Google Maps speed limit data is more thoroughly vetted than you’d think – By Matthew Zucca Android Police
We often take for granted the small, yet incredibly beneficial features embedded within our everyday apps — a perfect example would be the speed limit display on Google Maps. But have you ever wondered how Google ensures the accuracy of these speed limits as you drive from one location to another?
How to calibrate Google Maps
How to calibrate Google Maps – By Alan Truly Android Police
Google Maps can be a lifesaver when you’re in an unfamiliar city or on a lonely highway. Still, even the best digital maps can be misleading if your phone doesn’t accurately detect your location. That’s why it’s important to know how to calibrate Google Maps to pinpoint where you are to get the correct directions to your destination.
– How to Find Elevation on Google Maps
How to Find Elevation on Google Maps – By Mahesh Makvana How-To Geek
If you’re going on a hike or you’re just curious about a specific place’s altitudes, Google Maps makes it easy to find the elevation for most locations. Here’s how to use that feature on your desktop and mobile.
Google Maps Settings Everyone Should Be Using
The Most Clever Google Maps Settings Everyone Should Be Using – By Pranay Parab Lifehacker
Google Maps has become so much more than a simple navigation app: You can use it to find the best restaurants, gas stations, tourist spots, and so much more. But Google Maps has lots of useful features that aren’t enabled by default, so we’ve compiled our favorites for you here. The next time you open the app, adjust these settings to supercharge your Google Maps experience.
How to Save a Route on Google Maps
How to Save a Route on Google Maps – By Mahesh Makvana How-To Geek
By saving a route on Google Maps, you can quickly get directions to your specified destination. You can save routes on your iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, and we’ll show you how.
How Does Google Photos Know My Location Even When Location Is Off?
How Does Google Photos Know My Location Even When Location Is Off? – By Joe Fedewa How-To Geek
Google Photos is an excellent service, but like all things related to Google, there’s a bit of creepines involved in how uncannily good it is at certain tasks. You may have noticed location information on your photos, even if you have location disabled in the app and camera. What’s up with that?
Google Maps Settings Everyone Should
The Most Clever Google Maps Settings Everyone Should Be Using By Pranay Parab Lifehacker
Google Maps has become so much more than a simple navigation app: You can use it to find the best restaurants, gas stations, tourist spots, and so much more. But Google Maps has lots of useful features that aren’t enabled by default, so we’ve compiled our favorites for you here. The next time you open the app, adjust these settings to supercharge your Google Maps experience.
‘Help me write’ comes to Gmail for Android and iOS
‘Help me write’ comes to Gmail for Android and iOS – By Abner Li 9to5Google
Immediately after I/O 2023 last month, Google started more widely rolling out Workspace Labs, and “Help me write” is now seeing wide availability in Gmail for Android and iOS.
Get to know Google Maps ‘layers’
Get to know Google Maps ‘layers’ – the most useful features on your phone and the web – By Andrew Romero 9to5Google
This guide will break down each layer in the app and what it does, so you can use Google Maps to do things like see traffic, transit options, and even nearby air quality.
8 Google Maps Features That Will Change How You Use The App
8 Google Maps Features That Will Change How You Use The App – By Jack Filsinger SlashGear
There are various ways to use one of Google Maps’ most helpful features: Street View. Street View has only become more prevalent since Google Maps started rolling out features that allowed many users to become street view photographers themselves.
How to enable Google Chrome’s reader mode
How to enable Google Chrome’s secret reader mode feature – By Paul Hill neowin.net
Several years ago, Google added a reader mode feature to its experimental Canary builds. With reader mode, you can strip out the clutter and focus on the text more easily.