Maps
Save Your Favorite Places in Google Maps
How to Save Your Favorite Places in Google Maps– By Joe Fedewa How-To Geek
Google Maps can do so much that it’s easy to miss some of its most useful features. It’s good at remembering the places you frequently visit, but you can also simply save your favorite locations. That way, you always know where to find them.
Find Your Family and Friends Using Google Maps
How to Find Your Family and Friends Using Google Maps – By Sandy Writtenhouse How-To Geek
Google Maps can give you peace of mind when it comes to your loved ones. Whether it’s a school-aged child or an elderly family member, you can use Google Maps to find your family or friends’ locations.
Google Maps now shows railroad crossing alerts
Google Maps now shows railroad crossing alerts – By Ben Schoon 9to5Google
Google Maps is one of the company’s most successful products, and for good reason. The app is useful for more than just getting around, but also for seeing nearby businesses and attractions, as well as live traffic. Now, Google Maps is starting to show railroad crossings too.
How to use Google Maps
How to use Google Maps: 15 essential tips and tricks – By Kate Kozuch Tom’s Guide
It’s hard to imagine how people got around before Google Maps. Directions had to be memorized, paper maps had to be purchased, and you’d still get lost if you weren’t careful. Thankfully those days are gone, and whether you want to find the best way to commute home, keep track of all your favorite places, or just figure out where you need to be, Google Maps is there to help.
Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
25 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try By Chandra Steele
Google Maps is a Swiss Army Knife chock-full of hidden navigation, geospatial search, and customization tools. These tips and tricks will help you unlock your map app’s full potential.
Google Maps has changed the way we navigate the world. Its desktop and mobile apps have become not just a way to get from point A to B via car, public transportation, or on foot. The ubiquitous Google service is also a geospatial search engine for the world around us.
Useful Google Maps Tips for Every Traveler
Useful Google Maps Tips for Every Traveler – By Wandering Helene wanderinghelene.com
Google Maps is probably my most used travel app. I have been sharing my tips and tricks for using it for travel for years. Since these are questions I get over and over it is definitely time to share this article. If you have any questions or additional tips to share please leave them in the comments.
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How to See a List of Restaurants You’ve Visited in Google Maps
How to See a List of Restaurants You’ve Visited in Google Maps – By Joe Fedewa howtogeek.com
Google Maps is an invaluable tool for navigating using your smartphone. But did you know Maps keeps track of your travels even if you’re not actively using it? This feature enables you to see a running list of your visited restaurants.
The Rise Of Google Maps
The Rise Of Google Maps – By CNBCyoutube.com VIDEO
Google Maps has taken on competitors like MapQuest, Yahoo and Apple. But after a decade of investing, collecting data and billions of images through Street View, Google has over a billion monthly users. It updated tens of thousands of times a day and has mapped more than 220 countries and territories. Here’s a look at how Google came to dominate maps.
– Hidden Google Maps tricks
6 hidden Google Maps tricks to get through the holidays because they’re coming up fast – By Katie ConnerClifford Colby cnet.com
Thanksgiving and winter holidays are stressful as is, and potentially even more so during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In addition to our tips to help you stay safe (according to the CDC), we have some to help keep you sane. Google Maps has a stable of helpful tools if you’re traveling for Thanksgiving or going out for dinner. For example, if you’re going to a restaurant, you can check Google Maps first to see how busy it is to avoid standing in crowds.
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps
How to Find Your Direction of Travel Using Google Maps – By Ben Stockton howtogeek.com
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.
44 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
44 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try – uk.pcmag.com
Maps has changed the way we navigate the world. Its desktop and mobile apps have become not just a way to get from point A to B via car, public transportation, or on foot. The ubiquitous Google service is also a geospatial search engine for the world around us.
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I’m a frequent traveler and my favorite hack when I’m on the road is a Google Maps function you already have on your phone – By Sophie-Claire Hoeller insider.com
I wasn’t going to go out of my way to find these stairs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but saw that I was close one day thanks to Google Maps. Sophie-Claire Hoeller/Insider
There are hundreds of apps out there purporting to help you be a better, more organized traveler, but my favorite is actually just a function in an app you probably already have.
Try these 5 clever Google Maps tricks to get more than just driving directions – By Dale Smith cnet.com
I seldom use Google Maps to actually get directions, but I open the app almost every day for other reasons that might not be so obvious. Truth is, Google Maps is useful for a lot more than just showing you how to get from Point A to Point B. Beneath all those Christmas-colored traffic patterns and high-res satellite images hides a powerful search tool that offers crowdsourced real-time data on restaurants, retail stores, professional offices, public parks and practically anywhere else you’d want to go.
Google Maps gets a COVID layer
Google Maps gets a COVID layer so you know what you’re getting into before going there – By Rita El Khoury androidpolice.com
As you open Google Maps today and try to check what the traffic will be like on your route, you’ll probably notice a new highlight tip that points to a fresh and perfect addition for our modern lives: a COVID-19 layer. So whether you’re about to travel to a new country or are simply driving to the next county, you can always see how things are looking up.
How to Find Latitude and Longitude Coordinates Using Google Maps
How to Find Latitude and Longitude Coordinates Using Google Maps – By Ben Stockton howtogeek.com
As one of the most powerful mapping tools available, Google Maps has a number of features designed to help you pinpoint your location. If you want to know your exact position, you can pull up your GPS coordinates in Google Maps.
How to view location history in Google Maps
How to view location history in Google Maps – By Divyang Makwana mobigyaan.com
The Google Maps location history feature lets you view where and which places you have traveled. Google Maps provides a timeline of your visited places in a calendar view which can be helpful if you want to track your location history. Whether you want to check out the place you have visited a few days back or want to see the total commute during the day, the Google Maps location history will come handy. Here’s how you view location history in a timeline in Google Maps.