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Now You Can Customize the Car Navigation Icon on Google Maps

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  Google Maps has rolled out a new feature for its users. You can now customize your journey by picking your vehicle icon of your choice! It looks like the efforts of Google Maps developers for improving the overall appearance of the service has finally paid off. Google Maps is a perfect tool to navigate to unknown destinations. It has several features that allow you to find your route, locate any nearby restaurants or filling stations, and get other assistance in case of emergencies. The time estimates and traffic predictions of this application are accurate and make every ride a joy. Recently, users have come across the new vehicle icon in the Google Maps Android Auto version.  You can select a different vehicle icon during the navigation as per your desire. If you have a sedan car, you can select the red Sedan car icon, the green pickup icon if you own a pickup, the yellow SUV if you got an SUV. We might also get more vehicle icons on Google Maps in the near future. The new...

Comparison Between Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps

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  While traveling, we often use a navigating app to find the best possible route for us. But it’s quite challenging to decide which navigating app we should be using or which the best one is. Today we will make an unbiased comparison between Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps and then decide which one is the best navigating tool among them. Google Maps Google Maps provides you with a very clean and straightforward user interface, an outstanding search bar to search any place all around the world, real-time traffic navigation, tools to calculate the time required to reach the destination, and many more amazing tools. It also offers a spoken direction feature that guides you while driving and alerts you when you miss any turn. Google Maps also allows you to program multiple stops in your ways, shows the colored traffic routes, tells you multiple directions when you start the journey and finds the best and most convenient routes for you. It even gives you the various options to choose ...

Google Maps Tricks You Must Know About

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Google Maps can create magic when worked with! It has a lot of features that can help you with your most stressful thoughts – for example, if you’re travelling to a crowded place, a place to park your vehicle is a frustrating job. Well, Google Maps make it easy for you. Think of a lot of other things that it can do, which you aren’t even aware of. Below, we shall discuss its features and steps to do the same. Useful Features of Using Google Maps View your location while walking, Live Taking the same example as above, if you’re travelling to a very crowded place and finally found a spot to park your car that is a bit far from your destination, it can get difficult to reach there when it’s entirely an unfamiliar place to you. No worries! Google Maps got your back. It helps you view and your exact location and where you’re headed to. You’ll be amazed to know that the camera of your phone scans the buildings and streets nearby and directs you accordingly. The steps to use this feature are:...

Most Useful Tricks for Google Maps

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Google Maps becomes a friend when you’re traveling. Every time you step out to new roads and new adventures, Google Maps will always guide you to your location. Currently, due to the social distancing situations, you might not be going places, but some countries have begun to open their states and cities, and soon the world will again look for the best ways to commute and places to go for adventures.   The world will go back to normal, eventually, but before that, you must learn these useful hacks and tricks that you can find on Google Maps to make your commute much more comfortable and easier. Google Maps already enables you to know the best restaurants, night shelters, ATMs, and various services. You can also find multiple activities to do on Google Maps. Apart from all this, did you know that Google Maps allow you to download offline maps so you can use them later without any internet connection? Just like this, there are several other features that no one knows about and how to...