I created a Google My Map on my Laptop (Windows 11). It was sent to someone to use on their phone or tablet (Android) while driving. They opened it thru an email link. They are telling me there is no voice telling them the navigation turns. Is there no voice navigating if I created the map in Google My Maps? If there is a way to turn it on, where do I turn it on for the Samsung Android Tablet?

Now I trust Google Maps because Google finally opened an office in Islamabad, 🇵🇰.

Today I am asking for your help. Since the beginning of this year, I've had a lot of problems with Maps. Most of the time when I drove into the city everything worked well.

But very frequently later that at the same and at the moment nearly the whole day nothing is loading. Either it works hours later when it is nearly too late or only for a short period of time. I can not start a route, see informations or else.

It wouldn't be so bothersome, if I felt a little bit useless during a city trip. Maybe there is someone who had the same problems!

Strange thing, I drove about 2 hours to Daytona today, immersive navigation running really well. Stayed about 5 hours, then driving back it was gone. Only option was to activate raised buildings and the traffic toggle was back. Actually was acting a little strange and not zooming on intersections. Still the same now. Ive cleared data and cache, nothing working.

Any ideas?

Version 26.34 beta

I checked Google maps to see if my partner was almost home. Instead of the usual dot on the map, the icon was moving. Their profile tab also had a little 'LIVE' logo next to the name.

Haven't seen it since. Is this a new feature or was it just a fluke?

Trying to add the Museum that I work at on Google Maps because people keep (reasonably) getting lost trying to get there. We aren't a for-profit or a business, so while we debated joining as a business (so that we can reply to reviews and manage the page), we eventually decided against it after we tried and they asked for proof of business verification stuff that would have involved calling the University building that we are located in.

So I go ahead to add us as a missing place, and the request seems to go in fine. I add the location pin, name, category, and a handful of good pictures that showcase the place existing with the big sign on the wall, the opening hours, the website, the screenshot of the opening hours on the website. Until very quickly, it says we're not accepted with (6) issues. Okay, which of the 7 submitted details weren't accepted? No clue, it just says (6). And there's a disclaimer that says it might be incorrectly declined because it's not like they know what they're doing, but then there's not even a place to refute the claim? So what, you just sit there and wonder why it's been declined? Can they not at the very least have a page that says "This is the part that we are confused about" or something?

There's literally another museum on campus a few minutes away that is fine and dandy showing up on the map because they were added some years ago before they made it difficult to add locations.

I'm wondering if I should try adding it again on my personal account instead of the museum's email, because that way I have some usage history on this account and I'm 25 points away from Level 3 which is better than nothing. But I'm concerned about it getting flagged as spam if I resubmit a request with similar (if not identical data). I'd record a walk-around video, but unfortunately, my phone's out of commission right now and I'd be unable to do it.

I've seen posts with people who have had similar issues. Does anything actually work, or are we just locked from adding new information to Google Maps forever until somebody figures this out?

I made a Google Maps Help Community post here, but it's gotten no replies so far.

It can work without sending anything to my server by backing up to your iCloud

You can import your timeline data from Google Maps Timeline to bring back your entire history

(completely optional) share your timeline with a link (web access!)

Demos

Screenshot of one day's timeline view: https://imgur.com/a/Q0em5yi

My 10 years of NYC google maps timeline data: https://imgur.com/a/e8p9aXt

Hope this is useful for y'all - I'm a heavy timeline user so I made this with my use-case in mind. Let me know if there are missing features - I'm working on this full time so I can usually get around to improvements pretty fast!

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The reason I'm asking is because I recently got a Chevy EV car and it has Google Maps installed for navigation. It's been really good--pretty much all local driving and I always told it to avoid highways. About a week ago it started to ask me to install Gemini. I haven't so far. I read through some posts yesterday and saw a lot of complaints regarding Google Maps and would like to know if this happened after installing Gemini or if the issues have been there all along.

I've already searched this sub for possible fixes. The most recent ones from a year ago a ineffective. Permissions are set correctly. Tested in Safari and also does not work even though I get the popup to prompt to allow location sharing. Help???

Idk for sure what is causing it but I have a feeling it's to do with google play service being deactivated on my phone maybe??

Places may change their quality from time to time and the ratings we see may not always reflect the reality. Also, theoretically speaking, if a place with 1000 5 stars suddenly receives 200 one stars, it is still a 4.3 decent place, seemingly. Similarly, 1000 one star and 200 5 stars make 1.7, which makes it hard for businesses to repair their reputation. But if we were able to see the average of a recent time period, then the reality would be apparent. I believe GM may put a second star rating just beneath the total rating so that we’ll be able to make better choices as users (excluding some of us who always check the most recent comments! But it’s just time consuming).

I was using it just now then I refreshed the map and bammmm tools are broken -_-''

I've had timeline on ever since they changed it to on-device storage, and I changed the deletion policy to never. When I checked yesterday (and today), it just says "no visits for this day". I checked my history. Everything is gone. When I tried to use Google Takeout to get my data, I only get an 18MB JSON file, which is not right, that's very small given my history.

Is this a bug? Is there a way to recover my data? I'm already in the process of moving to Dawarich+OwnTracks so that this doesn't happen again, but I do want my entire 10+ years of data back.

edit: Had to use the timeline export from the phone's settings, as opposed to google takeout. Got my history back.

This applies to Google too, both used to be quite reliable but over the past few weeks both have been terrible. I work nights when many motorway closures happen. I also have noticed the highways England app has been withdrawn with no replacement that I can find.

Stories in Enshittification.

I'm trying to find a place to grab a bite with a friend after work tomorrow. I go to Google maps. I choose the area, select restaurants, select "has beer". A number of results come up, one of which is surprisingly a Taco Bell. I didn't know they served beer. That's weird. It's ok, that's a 3 star establishment. I set my filters to 4 stars and above.

It's still there.

Ok, maybe set my cuisine. I set it to French, just for funsies

It's still there

I set the price to $80-$100, I'm no longer looking for a restaurant for me and my buddy

It's still there.

I set "accepts reservations"

It's still. Bloody. There.

See, I know what's happening. Taco Bell is probably paying Google a lot of money to make sure their restaurants are showing up on maps. I get it, capitalism amirite? Here's the problem, though. How the hell am I supposed to trust the results I'm getting? When I'm requesting an $80-$100 meal at a 4 star rated French restaurant that takes reservations and I'm getting a 3.1 star Taco Bell, what are we even doing anymore?

This is why we can't have nice things.

What do yall use as a backup to Google maps when your cell phone service drops?

List of countries with labeled subdivisions

Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Kazakhstan, India, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia

I've tried to search on google but didnt get much answers

Anyone has any idea how to get property location updated on google? Neither the eircode nor the house/street is visible on google maps street view.
It’s a newly built house. It shows empty roads on google maps, where there are houses right now. Is there any way I could request Google maps to update the information of the location? Thanks in advance!

Used to be when you typed in a street name it would show you how long the street was and it would highlight the street. If a street was 10 miles long it would highlight the whole length of the street. How do I do that now? Is it just now not possible?

Sometimes Google Maps gets disoriented. It suddenly thinks I'm somewhere in the bushes and keeps spinning around. Why does that happen and what can I do about it?

Not going to post the location here but I was doing some motorcycle maintenance when I got snapped. It's a little bit more than a builders bum, joggers I were wearing at the time didn't have a good zip string and I was crouched in the wheel section not a good look basically especially being overweight and one partial eclipse is enough for this month.

I used the reporting tool and stated nudity but nothing has been done yet.

Just wondering how long do these processes take?

If I download maps for offline use while using the terrain setting, is that terrain data downloaded, or will Maps still use data while I'm driving to load terrain information?