How to customize the maps of Google Maps

The Google Maps app has been recently updated with many interesting options so that you can fully automate your travel management. We are going to teach you some of the most useful tools to customize Google Maps that you will surely appreciate knowing.

Your sites

In the Google Maps start menu (upper right corner), we can access a large selection of options to make our navigation easier.The first one we find is Your sites. Here we can customize recurring addresses such as our home or work We only have to write the address that once. From then on, to go to work or return home, just pressing a button will suffice to select the destination.

It is a very useful tool. Can we use it in other places that are not so obvious? Yes, sure. For that we only have to drag our finger to move from the Tagged to Saved section That will take us to three new sections, Favorites, I want to go and Featured Places.

With these three categories, we can include all the other sites that we consider of interest. There is no limit to putting those sites, we just have to enter the list and include the addresses we want. If we prefer to make our own lists, we can also do it In the same menu of Your sites there is a "+" button.By marking it, we can add the name we want to a new list, with a description, and finally, the list of sites.

Your contributions

This option from the Google Maps start menu is useful both for you and for other users. QWe can include reviews of places, or add photos, to remind us of where the specific place is. That can also help other people find your place more easily.

We also have the option to suggest changes if we see that there is a site that is not fully described or located. To do this we have to search for the specific place and check the option Suggest a change.

Back to the home menu, we can enter Your sites and enter places to be able to find them by name, without having to enter the address. This, once again, will save us and others from typing more than necessary.

Offline Zones

The data expense that Google Maps can cause on our phone if we use it frequently can become a problem. For this reason, in the start menu you have an option to select an area where you move a lot, and download it Thus, whenever you move around that area, you will not need to use the data connection.

Note that you can't download everything, you have a maximum of 500 MB to download, which is enough. At least you can have your entire city downloaded, and that way you forget about complications.

Remove tolls on Google Maps

One of the latest functions that was enabled to personalize Google Maps is that of remembering our travel preferences. When we mark a direction, and we are going to start, we must go to the button with the three points.There we select Route Options.

In a new menu we can select if we want to avoid highways, tolls or ferries When we mark any of these options, it will remain saved until we do any change. In this way, if we make some trips on a recurring basis, we can avoid this procedure for the future.

We hope that with these options it will be easier for you to customize maps from Google Maps, and make each journey as simple as possible.