My Places
My Places gives you easy access to your important locations and personal Maps history. In My Places you’ll find your: Offline Maps, Starred places (including Home and Work locations), Recently viewed Maps items, Directions, My Maps, Rated Places, and Maps searches.
To access My Places, you can tap the Menu icon > My places, and slide right and left or tap on the tabs to see the other options.
My Maps
The My Maps feature for Google Maps for Sero 7 allows you to access personalized, annotated, and customized maps that you’ve created in Google Maps from your computer.
Labs
Google Maps Labs allows you to try out experimental new features in Maps. To turn on a Labs feature in Google Maps, you can tap the Menu icon > Settings > Labs.
The current Maps Labs features are:
Measure - Adds an
Bigger Text - Increase the text size of labels on the map.
Directions Elevation - Displays an elevation profile for walking and biking directions. Once you get walking or biking directions you’ll automatically see a profile of your total ascent and the highest point on the route.
Intersection Explorer - Enables blind and
Search Maps
Search for a Location
You can search for a location or browse the area around you.
1.In the search box, enter the place you’re looking for. You can enter an address, a city, or a type of business or establishment.
2.Tap the Search icon on the keyboard.
Search History
In Google Maps, you can quickly access certain places from your search history, such as previously searched locations and queries, without having to type them in again. You’ll see any available search history appear below the search box along with other search suggestions.
To view your recent searches in Maps, go to Menu icon > My places > Recent.
Layers
View Layers
Initially, Google Maps opens with a street map. Enable Layers to view satellite or terrain imagery of a location, check on traffic, access Street View, and more.
Tap Menu icon > Layers, a dialog opens with a list of layers including:
1.Shortcuts to any recent searches.
2.Tap the layer you’d like to view, or tap a checked layer to hide it.
3.Tap to access My Maps, Wikipedia information.
Apps
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