Google Maps

Google Maps is a map that helps you to orient yourself.

You can use Google Maps in two ways. Open your web browser and enter Google Maps as the internet address, or you can open the app (available for Android and iOS) on your home screen. The handling of Google Maps is very easy and the use varied.

When locating your current location, Google Maps will tell you where you are. Now you can enter a destination as you like and the application will suggest the best route to the place you entered. It doesn't matter if you are on foot, by bike, by car or by public transport. You can choose the path you want to return to and Google Maps will adjust the route accordingly. You can do the same if you enter your starting point without GPS.

With up-to-date information, such as traffic alerts and real-time public transport information, Google Maps will help you find the most suitable routes and guide you towards increased traffic or road closures to reach your destination as quickly as possible. Therefore, Google Maps can also give you arrival time forecasts.

But not only that! If you enter search terms such as "supermarket" or "bank", you will see all the places in your region where the searched destination is located.

One option is Live View, which shows you the address and directions through live streaming of your real-world environment.

Google Maps also provide you with interior maps. For example, from airports, shopping malls and stadiums, so you can navigate faster.

You can also follow places to get tips on interesting neighborhoods, local restaurants, bars, events, activities, and information and trends on places to discover new places from the eyes of locals on the go.

With the recommendations of local people, you can decide if it is worth visiting. Then you can give yourself a rating that will help future travelers.

Takeaway, Google Maps offers you to download offline maps in advance to ensure optimal navigation without an Internet connection.

There are also some useful widgets on Google Maps. Among other things, you can mark your favorite places or places you still want to visit and create lists for them. If you want your friends to share, you can share the lists with them. Creating plans for entire groups is easier than ever with Google Maps suggestion lists. Share the suggestion lists with your friends and vote for them in real time. If you want to see what it looks like before you leave, Street View allows you to take photos of the places, not just outside. Some restaurants, shops and museums already show images of their interiors.

How to create my own list

Creating a list of sites on google maps is very useful when you are traveling to a city and you want to make a list of the places you want to visit in that city, for example.

You can create your personalized list from the options menu of the application itself, just go to the option "your sites", once inside you must select the saved section and you will be able to see all the lists that you have created so far. To create a list, just touch the + symbol that appears when you are viewing the list of lists.

Also if you are browsing the map and you see a site that you are interested in saving, you simply have to touch the location you like with your finger on the map, then unfold the tab from the bottom of the screen by clicking on the site name and finally touch the save button, here you can choose the list where you want to save that site or even create a new list that already begins with that site.

How to put the map in 3d

This trick works on the normal map not in the satellite view. All you have to do is zoom in a little bit to a location and then with two fingers slide them from the bottom of the screen upwards and you will see that suddenly what was a flat map just becomes a kind of three-dimensional map in which you can see the buildings with their different designs and shapes.

This is especially useful if for example you are in a city that you do not know and you are a little disoriented, seeing the shapes of the buildings in some way can help you to orient yourself a little better and know where you are.

Try the application and be convinced of how practical it is!