Google Maps Timeline is a personal map that helps users remember routes and trips they’ve taken and places they’ve been to based on their Location History. It also features a built-in travel diary, which allows users to relive their trips. Google Maps Trip Planner is a highly-visual way to get your bearings of an area and helps determine where you can realistically travel during the duration of your trip.
Google Maps Timeline tracks travel details like mileage and stops for insight into travel habits. New controls and tools in the update enhance editing and sharing. Google My Maps allows users to create shareable custom maps with multiple layers, location pins with icons and notes, making it a great way to brainstorm travel plans or create a trip itinerary from a desktop.
However, Google Maps does not offer the merging of multiple days. Users can download KML files for each day and upload them to different layers of My Maps to show the combined view. On January 13, 2023, Google Timeline categorized a multi-day trip into three different trips. To merge the trips together, users can go to their timeline, choose the dates to layer, export every single day, and click “More Trips”.
A workaround is to group by time zone, which allows users to work on a smaller subset of data for each time zone. Google My Maps also allows users to create shareable custom maps with multiple layers, location pins with icons and notes, making it a great way to brainstorm travel plans.
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I love how at :11 it shows Waze, not google maps. And, just as the article shows at 1:50, you can’t send custom maps to your phone, it’s shows a yellow triangle that plainly states “dragging does not effect sent route. You can create an intricate custom route on your PC but when you send it to your phone, it goes back to the default route google chooses.
The original Map Blast and MapQuest from over 20 years ago would allow you to completely draw your own map on the computer, and then you could print it out. This was with back roads and other roadways as long as it registered on the map. I’m really surprised MapQuest and map blast have never made their own do-it-yourself route program app
There are a million articles / tutorials of creating and sending a route to your phone. How do you actually USE it? There’s no start button to allow navigation along the route. Without being able to navigate, I don’t see any value in this “feature”. Maybe if you’re walking or biking and can manually follow along the steps, but not driving solo.
I was able to create a custom route and sent it by text and email as described however the text never came through and the email route didn’t include my changes just the added destination point not the other routing preferences I added myself. If it worked as described it would be such a game changer for me as a truck driver I can plan everything on the desktop and store the route, then recall it on my phone when I need it! That would be awesome!! Too bad it doesn’t work that way for me. Ive trying trouble shooting by ensuring notifications are on and all but I’m buffalo’d
basically no one has created a way of me doing what i want to do yet. Adding additional destinations can be very messy. As soon as this is shared to a phone google will constantly try and reroute you to its preferred route. All i want to do is create my route and transfer it to my phone. You’d think this would be a simple thing to do, but its not! If anyone knows of an app to do this, please share.
This technique did not work for me. The custom route I made & sent to my phone did not work. The link should have sent my custom route, but instead it sent the shortest route. Also, on a smart phone you can not alter the white dots. All you can do is add stops. If you add Stops to your route, you have to interact with you phone and tell it to proceed or continue…as it thinks you actually want to stop there. If riding a motorcycle like I was, this means stopping and fumbling with your phone to proceed. Fail.
Browser Maps has had this feature forever. It’s still incredible that Android version doesn’t have this ability. Yes you can add stops but that is much harder, not obvious AT ALL (there is no option to do that, you have to just know to search for another place which you can then add if you know the procedure.) Finally, you can’t compare the time savings since the only time shown is the time to the FIRST stop. Just don’t understand why this is still not a phone feature.
I was having the same issue but I think it’s hard to notice during his instruction, but if you “right click” and select “Add a destination” it creates those “white dots” he refers to and then actually adds the specific stops/streets to the route. You’ll be limited on the number of destinations you can add, but this should assist in maintaining your custom route.
Great for looking at a route on your pc. Completely unusable to be used as a GPS. It only sends the starting point and destination to your phone, then auto-completes the route the same as it always does. I guess you have to trick it by adding destinations along your custom route, but then you’re just fighting with it (and I doubt that will work). Lame.
I have tried this but I found issues here… Once the planned route is set out correctly the option is taken to send this to my smart phone in the form of an SMS. It is then used in my car with Android Car play. To use it in the car I have to connect the phone to the infotainment system via usb, the phone is wifi connected and location is enabled. However the moment I activate the route and start to drive, Google Maps ignores my planned map and decides to constantly take the route it decides … any suggestions?
I’m trying to travel one hour within my state, but I’m not legally allowed to ride on interstates with my motorcycle permit. There is a road that goes 3/4 of the way in a straight line towards my destination with two short jogs on tiny roads in slightly wrong direction but nooooo we are going to route you way out of your way to get you on the interstate. Seriously I don’t think bicycles are allowed on the interstate but when I click that option it still puts me on the interstate.
Ok, once you’ve planned a roadtrip with multiple stops and send the route to your smartphone and open it in google maps, it doesn’t let you navigate this route. There is no option to start navigating. I am not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but I have tried this several times and am unable to navigate/driving directions using google maps on my iphone
I followed the instruction from the comments too and unfortunately it does not work by opening the Google short link. Neither opening the long link, which includes the stops. It opens with the long link like having a slow old Modem connection, without being able to move anything. Embedding the route on a webpage shows the default route again. Turning the link into GPX, KMS fails too. The Google Map Router leads me by default through farm field which can only be driven by a Tractor. It`s even hard to walk there.
I drive a bus. We have routes for the city which appear on OUR GPS system but we also have routes that that don’t ie., school routes. I wanted to add those and it was good to a point but then the options ran out (so no, it doesn’t allow you to watch as much as you would like). This would have been more advantageous than looking down at directions on a paper that I photographed on my phone. Adding unlimited options would be nice.
I wish we could draw our own route on maps, and if it gets enough likes, it could be a suggested route. Maps has put me in seriously dangerous situations! Multiple times! For whatever reason it’ll take me on a “short route” through some extremely dangerous areas! When I absolutely did not need to go that route! Its even taken me off interstates and took me wayyyy off on some crazy detour. Luckily, I’ve gotten wiser, and I’ll stop and say okay you crazy robot! whats your plan? And get back on the interstate. This is soo frustrating and a huge safety issue, as now I need to pay more attention to my maps than the road!
I have the simple solution everyone perusal this seems to need; write down a list of your destinations and type them in maps one at a time as you arrive at the 1st one then type in the second one, when you reach second destination type in the 3rd, etc etc that way all the google programmers can focus on what is more important;what there pronouns are
Yes, you can open a saved map in your iPhone Google Maps app, but there is no voice navigation. Totally useless. Might as well print out the map and memorize your exits, rather than stare at that tiny little screen while you’re driving to make sure you don’t miss the next exit while you’re in three lanes of traffic in a large city.
only way is to add destinations, so stupid because i want to take a pev and literally look at roads by putting the guy on them and seeing if they are good then drag the dots and think im all done and send it to my phone and its back to square one. adding stops works, but should not be required, you should simply be able to lock the route in place. It is dangerous for people if they get re routed.
One year ago someone posted a comment how to create the same on a smartphone. Google doesn’t accept these suggestions. No wonder after sitting on AI Tech for many years after buying Deep Mind back in 2011 Google sat on the Tech for 12 years till Microsoft came out with Open AI. Now Google is scrambling.
You cannot save a custom route on your computer and have it transferred to your phone. No matter what you do the phone will revert to choosing the shortest route. I guess I will just have to figure out how to put my desktop computer and 27inch monitor in the car, as that would be the only way. I hate tutorials from someone who has not even tested out their instructions. Come On!!!! What a waste of time.