When Google Maps was not yet born, if you need to travel to an unexplored destination it was very important that you research a lot about the place and tap your friends and relatives for tips and tricks. Other people even get the help of a tour guide. That was before. Now, you can explore your way to eternity with the help of this Google’s powerful search engine that can take you to the farthest places you can think of without getting lost. But as far as offering you help in discovering a place, what does it have that’s left to be explored yet?
Zero-in Feature
This Google Maps feature will help you enter a route or a place by entering the exact street where you’re currently at. How to use this? Just use the ‘My Location’, then punch zero and you’ll find that place you’re in at the moment that’s with the blue dotted circle on the screen of your device. Now you already know that this feature is available, why don’t you share this with your friends so that they can use this option too?
Route Map Screenshot Option
If you’re worried that you might get lost if you don’t have internet connection when you get your way to your thrilling journey, you can put your mind at rest because there’s a screenshot feature of Google Maps that you can use. Before going to the remote area, get a screenshot of your route map and have it in front of you as a guide. Now you don’t need an internet connection for it, right? So how you should go about this feature is while your internet connection is working fine, zoom in and focus the map on the area you want to copy and then in the search box, type in ‘OK Maps’. When you do this, a confirmation message will show in the bottom of the screen of your phone to confirm that the route map has been cached.
Search for Flights Feature
You might be thinking all along that the only help you’ll get out of Google Maps is in finding road directions, but what’s interesting about this service is that you can also use this as a way to get directions on air. You’ll just do the same thing you would do with road directions-fill up your starting place and destination, and then click on ‘See results on Google Flights’. This will show you the details of the available flights, times, brands of airlines, prices and so on. You can even compare the prices of different airline brands if you want.
You see, there are many other features that Google Maps offers! If you are planning to travel to a new and unexplored destination anytime soon, make sure that you include this powerful search engine in your must haves before you hit the road.