Google Maps has proved to be one of Google's most useful applications. Most of us already know just how useful Google Maps. For a person like me, who has such a poor sense of direction, I cannot even count the number of times Google Maps has prevented me from getting completely lost in a part of town which I am unfamiliar with. It has prevented me from being late from countless of meetings, and at times, even saved me some money. Before Google Maps, whenever I got lost, I always had to resort to taking a taxi, especially if I was on my own.
Everyone knows the basics of Google Maps, but here are a couple of new features that you may have yet to discover.
1) It is easier to move in between views in the program.
- Moving in between the satellite view to the map view to the earth view is much easier with the new layout
- You can view the different "layers" available with ease. "Layers" refer to to traffic patterns, geotagged photos, videos and even webcam locations. Even bicycling routes, location-linked Wikipedia entries, and real estate for sale is available on Google Maps.
2) You can restrict your Google Maps search to include just businesses or user-created maps.
- User-created maps allows you to save maps with directions to places that you frequent, and makes it easy for you to retrieve these maps whenever you need them.
- It even allows you to create shortcuts to these maps on your phones or mobile devices, making it even easier to retrieve these maps.
3)You can find out what the places near the current location you are at are by right clicking on the "What's here" button.
- Google Maps will churn out a list of locations (be it a specific address or place).
Google Maps just got a whole lot more useful.
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