Seven functions of Google Maps for tourists you did not know existed – 24/03/2019

After more than a decade of existence, Google Maps has become a service we use very frequently. And although most of the time, we use it to follow a route by walking or driving, or just to check it, to see the details of the streets, buildings or places we have never visited with the View satellite mode of Street View, which is certain, is that It hides other functions unknown to many.

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Whether we use the application from our cell phone or from the computer, we have several complementary, practical and curious functions. For example, maybe you did not know that you can organize trips with stops along the way, measure distances in a straight line between two points or remember where you left the car parked.

How to measure the distance between several points

Sometimes we arrive in a city we did not know and to move on the map we have no reference to the possible distance between one place and another. In this case, Google Maps has a tool for measuring routes. From the computer simply by establishing in a certain place on the map, and pressing with the right button of the foam appears a menu with the measuring function. From the mobile phone, you access it by marking a place in red then clicking on the name of this site.

Save the place where we park

How many times do we arrive at one place, leave our car parked and then we do not know where she was? For this, Google Maps has a specific function. When we want to save the location Just press once on the blue dot that indicates our current position. A menu with a tab appears: "Save the position of the parked car" (most versions are in Spanish). In this way, we will not lose ourselves.

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Add stops in the planning of a trip

Useful if we organize a trip from one point to another and we wish to have a cool place where we must stop, whether to rest or for any other reason. It is better that we establish a place in advance, so we do not know when to find a suitable site. After establishing the point of departure and the destination, in the main menu we can add a stop.

Contact the Google Maps team can be very helpful

can notify a site that does not appear on the map, request that we delete private information that appears in Street View or that we send photos and information from one corner of the planet where Google has not yet accessed. It's a slow process, but in the Google Maps application there are several tabs where a form that we will fill depending on the information to be sent.

Access the history of the places visited

Google Maps save the story of the trips we made. This may seem very practical for some, but for others, it may seem intrusive that Google has all this information. To access this data in the main menu, a tab allows you to "your chronology". We can access a calendar where the selection of a specific day, He will show us the route on the map of all the places where we were. If you do it from the computer, the options to view the timeline of locations increase.

Search flights

In the case of air transport, choose between two cities served by direct flights, in the box of Google Maps will show us all the information about this: the number of direct flights per day, prices of roundtrip trips, airlinesetc. All this information is in the "See results in Google Flights" link.

Save a card for later use without an Internet connection

This option is very convenient, especially If we are missing data on the cell phone or are traveling abroad. It is very easy to use, in the main menu we have the tab "connectionless cards". We select an area on the map and zoom out or zoom in until we reach a portion of the space according to our needs. Thanks to this function, we do not depend on our data connection. That yes, depending on the complexity of the card can take a lot of memory in the cell phone.

(Source: The Vanguardia)