How To Add a Place in Google Maps

How To Add a Place in Google Maps

How To Add a Place in Google Maps : Navigate your world faster and easier with Google Maps. Over 220 countries and territories mapped and hundreds of millions of businesses and places on the map. Get real-time GPS navigation, traffic, and transit info, and explore local neighborhoods by knowing where to eat, drink and go - no matter what part of the world you’re in.


Get there faster with real-time updates :

• Beat traffic with real-time ETAs and traffic conditions
• Catch your bus, train, or ride-share with real-time transit info
• Save time with automatic rerouting based on live traffic, incidents, and road closures
• Discover places and explore like a local :
• Discover local restaurant, events, and activities that matter to you
• Know what’s trending and new places that are opening in the areas you care about
• Decide more confidently with “Your match,” a number on how likely you are to like a place
• Group planning made easy. Share a shortlist of options and vote in real-time
• Create lists of your favorite places and share with friends
• Follow must-try places recommended by local experts, Google, and publishers
• Review places you’ve visited. Add photos, missing roads and places.
• More experiences on Google Maps :
• Offline maps to search and navigate without an internet connection
• Street View and indoor imagery for restaurants, shops, museums and more
• Indoor maps to quickly find your way inside big places like airports, malls and stadiums

How To Add a Place in Google Maps?

• As many people use Google Maps for their daily navigation needs, they would also want to learn to add a place in Google Maps. While traveling through the city or the countryside, there are certain locations that a user might come across which they would want to go back to. These places can be added to Google Maps for the user to revisit. Check out how to add a location in Google Maps below.

Add a place

• On an Android phone or tablet, open the My Maps
• Open or create a map. A map can have up to 10,000 lines, shapes, or places.
• In the bottom right, tap Add and then Add a new point.
• Drag the map until the X is where it is desired to be, then tap Select this location.
• Give the added place a name and choose a layer. A layer can have 2,000 lines, shapes, or places.
• Tap Done

Edit a place :

• On an Android phone or tablet, open the My Maps app
• Open or create a map.
• Tap the place that needs to be edited
• Tap Edit details
• Make the changes needed
• Optional: To move the point on the map, tap Edit. Then pan the point to the new location and tap Select this location.
• When finished, tap Done

Search for places :

• Users can add restaurants, hotels, museums, and other public places to the map.
• On their Android phone or tablet, open the My Maps app
• Open or create a map.
• In the search bar, enter a place name or address.
• Tap one of the search results.
• If the result is what the user wants, tap Add to map.

Google Map App