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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
- Groceries
Search for grocery stores in your area
- Restaurants
Restaurants near you - Google Maps
- Takeout
Find local takeout foods
- Hotels
Hotels - Google Maps
- Gas
Search for gas stations in your area
- Pharmacies
Pharmacy stores - Google Maps
- Groceries
1 day ago · About this app. Navigate your world faster and easier with Google Maps. Over 220 countries and territories mapped and hundreds of millions of businesses and places on the map. Get real-time GPS navigation, traffic, and transit info, and explore local neighborhoods by knowing where to eat, drink and go - no matter what part of the world you’re in.
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Explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside places with Street View on Google Maps. Explore worldwide satellite imagery, 3D buildings, and terrain for hundreds of cities with Google Earth. Become a Local Guide to help people everywhere find the places worth seeing and things worth doing.
Use navigation in Google Maps. Check your speed. Request a ride. Add a shortcut to places you visit often. Get traffic or search for places along the way. Use Google Assistant while you navigate. Get train & bus departures. Set a reminder to leave for your trip. Plan your commute or trip.
- Overview
- Set your home or work addresses
- Get info about a place
- Get directions & start navigation
- Understand Google Maps app features
- Explore
- Go
- Saved
- Contribute
- Updates
Get set up and learn the basics of Google Maps with this guide. You can use Google Maps on your computer or use the Google Maps app on your phone or tablet.
This guide can teach you how to set up Google Maps and also explains various features within Maps.
Find directions from your home or work quicker when you set your home and work addresses in your Google Account. You can also find the fastest route to shorten your commute.
Tip: This information may be shared with other Google products and services.
After you find a place on the map you can:
• Get directions to it.
• Get info like business hours and menus.
• Find Street View imagery.
On a phone or tablet, at the bottom of your map, tap Go. Get travel times and directions to places you might go next, like your home, work, or calendar appointments.
To help you access features faster, Google Maps app has been updated.
When you open the Google Maps app, you can find 5 tabs at the bottom of the Home Screen:
• Explore : Choose where to go.
• Go : What to expect along your frequent trips.
• Saved : Create lists and recall places.
• Contribute : Share experiences, add info and reviews, and fix problems.
You can find detailed reviews and descriptions of the most popular establishments and hotspots in the area. You can search for popular locations, local events, trendy restaurants, or things to do in Google Maps.
For more info on how to use the Explore tab, refer to Search for nearby places and explore the area.
Find all of your frequent trips in one tap. You can get information about your ETA and the traffic reports and the accidents along the way.
You can use the Saved tab to find personalized content like:
• Recently saved places
• Your lists
• Timeline
• My maps
• Reservations
To add places, write reviews, upload photos, or suggest an edit, at the bottom, tap Contribute.
You can also submit corrections to roads and places, manage your Maps profile, and find your contribution views and impact.
In Updates, you can:
• Get recommendations for places and things to do, and find what the people and merchants you follow have to say about places.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
On your computer, open Google Maps. Click Directions . Add a starting point and a destination. On the left, below the destinations you entered, click Add . To add a stop, choose another destination. You can add up to 9 stops. Click on a route to get the directions. Tip: You can search for places along your route.
