Useful features of Google Maps web-based version
Web Services / / December 25, 2019
Many of us use Google Maps on mobile devices and on your computer to search for addresses, view panoramas or simply travel planning. Browser version of Google Maps is changing very rapidly, and it has features and tools, which you just can not know. Along with the blog Mashable, we will tell you about them.
1. Set the default point "Home" and "Work" section in My places - so you will be easier to get directions on your city.
2. You can share the selected locations in many ways - to share long or short a URL, integrate interactive fragment pre-configure it as well as to post a link to map to on Google+ (located next to the icon of your Account).
3. Turn on Google MapsGL. The technology is available in normal modern browsers - Chrome, Safari and Firefox. It allows you to show buildings in 3D where they are, and just do all the animations in the charts smoother. Enable MapsGL offers card if your PC and browser ready for them.
4. Explore the area for the presence of places of interest with the help of a click on the location and select the option What's here?
5. Use the additional data maps. Under the button on the top right you can choose the transport routes, traffic jams data, photos, streets, cameras and more - for each city set its own. For some cities, even bicycle paths maps are available.
Also available layer geotegirovannymi Wikipedia articles.
6. Remember any place on the map is simple - just mark it with an asterisk. Such places will be formed in the section My places. In general, study it - there a lot of useful features - save the places that you have rated, the place where you Chekina, search history and more!
7. See the location of each node of your itinerary, simply click on the yellow man on the list, describing the route.
8. Create your own interactive maps alone or in combination. Apply not only to information lines and shapes, but also HTML-code with interactive elements.
9. Do not forget the section Google Maps Labs, where it is constantly adding new and new experimental features for especially loyal users. Labs can be found in the left sidebar at the bottom.