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Questions tagged [google-maps]

For questions about using Google Maps (an app developed by Google LLC) and any directions retrieved through it.

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An app developed by Google LLC released on November 28th 2007.

Defined on Wikipedia as:

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air, or public transportation.

Use for questions specifically about the application and not about general transportation questions.

This could be about:

  • Using the app
  • Any directions received through it
  • The apps functionality

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How to tell Google Maps to avoid bad neighborhoods in San Francisco?

A couple I know will travel from Greece to San Francisco for their honeymoon, and then visit other places too; it's their first trip abroad. I remember when I first came to SF, I used Google Maps to navigate. Once I was on foot, and it guided me…
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What is this white dashed line across the Thames in Google Maps?

What is this white dashed line (circled) across the Thames in Google Maps? Is it possibly the site of the old London Bridge? But what would be the use of that on a modern travel map?
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Google Maps avoid (or allow) tolls only for selected country, on multi-country routing

I often travel to Italy from Switzerland and vice versa, in Switzerland to use the highway you have to buy a sticker (or register your license plate online since this August) and pay a set fee for the year while Italy uses toll booths. If I choose…
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What is this impossible trip that Google Maps is showing?

I need to get from Genoa to Nice, and according to Google Maps, there is a bus that you can take: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gRQ1zHBrFRTzCppP6 and it looks like this: Now this is clearly absurd. What is Google doing here? Update: Here's another…
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Why does Waze give a time estimate for this road trip two hours lower than Google Maps?

Google Maps: 13 hours, 5 minutes Waze: 11 hours, 15 minutes Pretty much the same path. Screenshots taken at the time, and both programs consider the traffic information. What accounts for such a time estimate difference? Knowing this will help my…
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Why does Google Maps say that driving from San Francisco to Seattle via Portland is 30 minutes faster than driving from San Francisco to Seattle?

I read the following ETAs: GMaps: San Francisco to Seattle: 13h23min. GMaps: San Francisco to Seattle via Portland, Oregon: 12h55min. Why does Google Maps say that driving from San Francisco to Seattle via Portland is 28 minutes faster than…
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What does the circled 1 sign mean on Google maps next to "Tolls"?

What does the circled 1 sign mean on Google maps next to "Tolls"? Example: I don't think that's the number of tolls given the distance.
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Is Google Street View coverage in Germany expected to increase?

Famously, privacy laws have made it difficult for Google to roll out its Street View service in Germany. The country is not completely missing from Street View however; some urban areas seem to be at least partially included. E.g. when I look at…
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Highlight a particular road/railway line on Google Maps without specifying source and destinations

On Google Maps we usually look for a route between two places by specifying them by names. But how to highlight a route without specifying any place names? For example, if I enter Tokyo and Osaka in source and destination boxes on Maps it can show…
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Google Maps: How to overlay Metro Stations / Metro lines over Hotel Price Map

MAP_1: I'd like to select a hotel from a map of hotel prices for June 19-21 is plotted via Google Maps: MAP_2: CityMapper plots the Metro Line in Google maps: For the purpose of getting to / from the Paris Airshow at Lebourget. On Map_1, I'd like to…
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Why is this park in Athens hidden from view in Google (but not Bing)?

I noticed a purposely blurred area in Athens in Google Maps: It seems that this is a normal botanical park, I could not find anything sensitive there (which is the typical reason for such blurring). The equivalent image from Bing does not show the…
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What Coordinate format does the UNESCO web site provide?

I found a strange coordinate format in UNESCO site Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries N6810014 E20551 (zone 32) Google maps does not accept N6810014 E20551. How to decode this coordinate?
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Seeing location of friends in Google map in navigation mode

I can see the location of my friends without any issue in Google maps. However the moment I start navigation/driving then I don't see any of them. This is especially required when we are driving together as a group in multiple cars to the same…
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Is there a tool that allows me to plot a specified distance along a Google Maps route?

I would like to do a virtual walk along a long-distance route that I have plotted in Google Maps. By virtual I mean I will be walking locally and mapping my distance onto the route. So if I walk 10km one day, and 20km the next, I’d like to say to…
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Google Maps public transport in offline mode?

Google Maps is a good ally when traveling. You can download a map for offline and this is nice because when you arrive to a new place and have no internet you can still have access to a map. However, public transportation is not downloaded for…
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