5 FANTASTIC Google Maps Features You Want To Know About

Another thing I use Streetview for is nostalgia. I often reminisce about the places where I lived, where I went to school or to different clubs, or I look back years later at places where I spent holidays with my family. I "walk" the streets and squares again and often remember not only the mood of the time, but even the tastes and smells.

The historical street view feature is really useful when considering buying real estate. It gives you an opportunity to gauge if the neighborhood appears to be getting better or getting worse as time progresses.

When measuring your roof, you need to compensate for the "pitch" of the roof. You can google the "pitch" and then use it as a multiplyer which will give you the amout of "squares" to buy or see what the roofing contractor is telling you. A 12/12 pitch requires more squares than a 5/12 pitch.

One little known feature I use is multiple address lookup. I’ve created a single map showing all 1100 of my jobs around my metropolitan area. I update it every month and the number of pins keep growing. Then, for each new job, I can see right away if I had done a job nearby, when, for who and for how much. There are streets and parts of town where I’ve done several jobs nearby but spread over decades I can’t remember. Pretty cool feature. Requires upload of spreadsheet.

I take google vacations and use street view to travel in different countries. :-) I was in Venice Italy and I stumbled upon the fact that while in street view you can actually get on the gondolas. How cool is that?!?!

When planning a trip, I find Street View so useful to be able to see what some road junction looks like as you approach and to be able to identify buildings or landmarks. When you make the journey, you’ve already rehearsed it! Brilliant feature.

I have used the measuring feature to determine the area to spread fertilizer. really helpful. thanks for sharing

When I was younger and we all used map books to plan a route, I thought it would be great to enhance these map books with with photos of complex intersections, so you could see in advance where to turn. Then google maps came along and they executed the idea 100 times better with a mobile app and street view. I love the suggestion you gave for street view history. Great feature!

Offline maps is great too. We download to our phones map data for places we intend to travel to where we know we don’t have cell service. We can still get directions and not get lost without having any service. It’s great.

Table of Contents: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Measurements - distance 04:32 Measurements - area 06:18 Street View - history 09:53 Integration with Google Apps 13:41 Location Services

My wife stumbled across this video. I loved it! Your delivery and personality are awesome. You now have 2 new subscribers!

Recently discovered this channel. Love the style of it. Simple and informative. Without any forced stupid jokes or over-the-top editing & music. Also, I was not aware of the nice back-in-time feature of street view and just knew its corresponding part in Google Earth. Thanks!

A favorite use of Google maps has been virtual touring. Their engineers made miniature versions of the 360 degree photo equipment they use for street view. They can be carried around like a backpack. They've taken these to quite a few tourist destinations, including down into the Grand Canyon. Many years ago, I spent the night at Phantom Ranch, at the bottom. I was able to relive my hikes down and back. Each step of the way I was able to look in all directions. It was like reconnecting with friends I hadn't seen in a long time. I suppose it wouldn't have the same impact for someone who's never been there, but for me it was a very emotional experience!

I have YEARS of experience in Google maps as a hobby. I was a prolific contributor in the now defunct maps app Google Mapmaker. It was a crowd-source app that allowed you to Edit the maps and everything in it. There was a robust oversight mechanism that assured only quality edits were accepted. Even with this experience, your video taught me something! I am grateful for that, Thank you. You can still edit details, to some degree, by right click on a feature or by exploring the fine print links at the bottom of the map window. I still correct incorrect details on the maps from time to time.

Nonna an Nonno's house! Love it. I feel bad for folks who never had Italian grandparents! Thanks for the tips!!

Nice video. Two additional thoughts. 1. You almost mentioned it - with mass transit, a feature I noticed while using the trains in Europe (Belgium specifically) was information about connections track and time. This was hugely beneficial. 2. Caveat on your roofing example. Remember geometry when calculating square footage or meters. A roof’s pitch can have a massive impact on the estimate.

The thing that I find most useful about maps is the timeline feature. I have to fill out a time sheet for work and list all the different jobs that I worked on for the week and sometimes I might go to two or three sites within a day and it helps me to not only remember exactly where I was but the exact times that I got there, my travel time, and everything. Some of the other guys struggle at this and for me, this just makes it really simple.

One feature that I've found useful is offline maps. You can download a huge map of your area and if you don't have a Wi-Fi or cell signal you'll still have access to that map and if your GPS is still turned on it will still track you either by satellite or triangulation with Wi-Fi or cell towers

My father passed away about 4 years ago I used the street view history and was able to see him at the apartment getting stuff out of car. I was an emotional experience.

You should add the ability to create a custom map to your list of tips. If you have an alternate route to get from point A to point B beside the route Google maps suggests, you can draw it on maps (similar to your first tip in the video)) and then save it as a custom map and send it someone if you want. Last week, my daughter was coming to visit from 5 hours away. She wanted to know if I knew a shortcut as she did not want to take the interstate as Google Maps suggested. I knew of a short cut, so I drew it up on Maps and saved it as a custom map. This is a very useful function, I think.