How Google Maps Place Affinity works and how to improve it

Google Maps doesn't just help you get to the places you tell it to. It can also be of great help to plan your trips and even as a guide to recommend places. Museums, cocktail bars, restaurants, open-air terraces where you can have a drink and escape the high temperatures... With Google Maps open we can have a good idea of ​​all the places around you to cover leisure hours both in your city like where you are spending your vacations.

But of course, you can get lost among the offer, and no matter how much you read the opinions of others, you will never know if, really, that bar or restaurant is made for you. For a greater success in terms of recommended places, Google Maps took out, relatively recently, the affinity of places. Now, simply, the places that you can find reviewed on Google Maps go with a score that changes according to your tastes and affinities, in order to better hit the place you recommend.

How to improve the affinity of places in Google Maps

Open your Google Maps application. If you don't already have it available on your device, go to the Google Play Store app store and download it. With Google Maps, as we told you before, you will have a complete browser to go between sites, you will be able to assign your places of work and residence to always be able to access them, and value all the places to help other users.Do you already have it downloaded? We move on to the next section.

The main screen will be a map where you stand. If you pull the screen from the bottom bar up, you will display a tab that will invite you to discover the city from which you are opening the application If you are going on a trip, you We recommend that you do this in order to enjoy and discover more of the destination city. This screen is classified by categories such as 'Restaurants', 'Coffee shops', 'Attractions', 'Shops and Supermarkets', 'ATMs', 'Hotels'… We are going to consult a bar or restaurant, in this case.

Tell Google Maps what your preferences are

Once you choose the category, you can order it according to various criteria such as distance, rating, opening hours, relevance... If we pull the screen down, we will see the list of restaurants according to the search filter that we have applied before.First, a series of photographs of the premises will appear, followed by the overall score, which is an average of all the opinions expressed by consumers in the application itself, as well as the number of people who have rated it. And, right next to it, we have the percentage of affinity with the place If a punctuation mark appears, click on it. Google Maps needs extra help figuring out what you like and don't like, and then give you a more accurate recommendation.

For ratings to appear in bars and restaurants you must tell the application what you like in terms of gastronomy. Also, to improve affinity, you can continue to rate other sites. If you are interested in Indian, Turkish, Chinese or Greek food, if you are more into pizza or hamburger, if the coffee service is essential for you... You have two sections, what you like and what you don't. You can be 'allergic' to familiar places and go crazy for French haute cuisine.According to what you like and what you hate, this will be your affinity with the places on Google Maps.

Click on the place you want to consult and, then, on 'Affinity'. A new screen will open offering you the reasons why that place has been valued in that way It may be because you have already visited it before and you have assessed it well, that it coincides with the favorable criteria that you marked before.