Google Find A Way To Improve Maps
Fans of Google Maps are likely to appreciate some new features that have been recently added to make it better still.
It boils down to being able to save and share locations, something that some users have been seeking for some time.
Previously it has only been possible to send someone else a location from Maps, such as ‘here is how to find my house’ as a link cut and pasted into an email.
Now the ‘share’ icon, the sideways ‘v’ with three dots on its extremities, has been added so that a location can be shared via other Apps on a device.
So, imagine that you are fixing up a meal out with friends and book a table at a pub that you have been meaning to try for some time.
You might have used the ‘Save’ option when you first searched for it in Maps a few weeks earlier, so that you could locate it quickly again.
Having booked, you could open Maps, list Saved Locations, select that pub, hit the share icon, choose WhatsApp from your Apps directory and embed the location in a message to the others that are coming.
Another handy new feature is that ability to create, keep and share lists.
Suppose you are off on a family trip to London to see Les Mis at the Queens Theatre, plan to do Tower Bridge (pictured) and the London Eye before the show, and then round the day off with a cracking steak at Gaucho in Piccadilly.
You can set up all four locations in a list in advance and use it to travel between the locations when you get there.
