After all, recent innovations have added many new features, allowing you to create and share maps, view satellite maps, drag and drop the street maps and search for local businesses. Here are some tips and tricks to help you navigate Google Maps like a pro.
You may also need map help customizing your trip to suit your needs. One of the latest joys of online mapping, particularly for longer trips, is that you can change your route to take a more scenic drive. Say you are driving from Nashville, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina but you decide you would like to traverse through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the way.
To customize your route, hover your mouse over the portion of the route just above the park. You will see a little white box that says "Drag to change route," which you will drag and drop to your location.
Google will stick a new place-mark there that looks like a pause button and will adjust the route, recalculating driving time and directions. This is also very handy if you see construction or traffic on your route that you would prefer to navigate around.
Travelers often need map help finding notable landmarks. You may not necessarily know the address of the Eiffel Tower, but you can zero in on the location by typing in "Eiffel Tower." Now say you are in the car driving but you have no idea where you are.
You can turn your cell phone into a GPS device using Google Maps for Mobile right on your cell phone. (Check out the video for this on the Google Maps site). You may also want to explore the country of Japan to decide where you would like to visit, just by typing in "Japan." You can also search for zip codes, airport codes, latitudes and longitudes.
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