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  1. View your My Maps using Google Maps
  2. Search locations on Google Maps
  3. Google Maps now shows you the cost of toll roads
  4. Why You Might Want to Blur Your Home on Google Maps
  5. Google Maps updates: New cities for Immersive View and more features
  6. Google rolls out slew of new AI


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View your My Maps using Google Maps

Youcan view your My Maps using Google Maps. To make and edit your own custom maps to share online, use Find your My Map If you created maps in My Maps, you can see your 5 most recent maps in Google Maps. To see your maps, follow the steps below. • • Click Menu Your places Maps. • To edit a map, choose a map and click Open in My Maps. You'll be taken to My Maps, where you can edit your map. Create a map in My Maps To create a map, open If you have problems creating or editing your My Maps, visit the

Search locations on Google Maps

• On your computer, open • Type an address or name of a place. • Press Enter or click Search . • To filter your search results, use the drop-down menus below the search box. You get search results as red mini-pins or red dots, where mini-pins show the top results. The purple ones are ads. Check the entire map To check the entire map and hide the side panel, on the right side of the panel, click the Arrow . Filter your search results on Google Maps • On your computer, open • Search for a type of business, restaurant, or place. • Choose a filter: • Price: Search based on cost of the restaurant. • Hours: Check places that are currently open for business. • Hotel information: Find check-in dates and star ratings. Find recent searches In the "Recents" tab, you can review, save, and share recent searches. To review recent searches: • On your computer, go to Google Maps. • On the left, click Recents . • Tip: At the top of the "Recents" tab, Maps groups searches by geographical location. To save recent searches to Saved lists: • On the left, click Recents . • Select the searches that you want to save. • At the bottom, click Save . • To save to an existing list, click the list you want. • To save to a new list, click New list. To share recent searches: • On the left, click Recents . • Select the searches that you want to share. • To copy the searches to your computer's clipboard, at the bottom, click Share . • You can paste the searches in an email or document. Tip: To disable the ...

Google Maps now shows you the cost of toll roads

> > You can't help the (opens in a new tab), but maybe you can save a little on avoiding the pricy toll roads. With this in mind, Google has activated a new feature on Maps that shows you the cost of toll roads on your trip. It is now live on both Android and iOS devices. In a support post, the (opens in a new tab) it uses "trusted information from local tolling authorities" to get the figures. The system also looks at a number of factors to determine the prices, including whether you have a toll pass or not, day of the week, and the exact toll price at the specific time you'll be crossing it.

Why You Might Want to Blur Your Home on Google Maps

Street View gives anyone a free ticket to examine your home over the internet -- maybe they want to look for any cameras or find a side window to pry open. And sure, anyone can walk or drive by your home and do this in person, but Google Maps makes this process much simpler. Anyone with a phone or computer can do it. Fortunately, there's an easy way to blur your home on Google Maps and help prevent others from seeing too many details of where you live. Here's how to do it. For more, here's Google Maps can help you figure out dinner. How to blur your home on Google Maps You'll need to do this on your computer, as the blurring feature isn't available in the Google Maps application on iOS or Android, and while it is accessible through the web browser on your mobile device, it's rather difficult to use, so use a trusted web browser on your Mac or PC instead. This is the Street View of your location. Screenshot by Nelson Aguilar/CNET Now, it's up to you to choose what you want Google to blur. Using your mouse, adjust the view of the image so that your home and anything else you want to blur is all contained within the red and black box. Use your cursor to move around and the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and out, respectively. • A face. • Your home. • Your car/license plate. • A different object. You'll be asked to give a bit more detail as to what exactly you want blurred, in case the image is busy with several cars, people and other objects. Also, be completely sure that ...

Google Maps updates: New cities for Immersive View and more features

In many parts of the world, summer is here ☀️ —- which often means time for trip planning and exploration. Today, we’re sharing three new updates from Google Maps to help you make the most of your summer adventures. Immersive View: rolling out to new cities and available for 500+ landmarks around the 🌍 Earlier this year, we launched Immersive View to transform the way you explore — using AI to fuse together billions of images and create a multidimensional view of the world with trusted information layered on top. Today, we’re starting to roll out Immersive View in four new cities: Amsterdam, Dublin, Florence and Venice — and are expanding it to over 500 iconic landmarks around the world, from Prague Castle to the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Android and iOS. So if you’re planning a trip to Boston and want to see the historic Faneuil Hall, you can get a jump start on familiarizing yourself with the area before you visit. Just search for it in Google Maps and tap on the first video to virtually soar over the building and find places nearby. With the time slider, you can see what the weather will be like at different times of day and how crowded it will be so you can plan ahead. And where we have data available, you can peek inside of restaurants and cafes to help you decide whether you want to make a reservation — thanks to an advanced AI technique called neural radiance fields, or Track your trip progress with glanceable directions, which start rolling out this month 🗾 While we...

Google rolls out slew of new AI

The other update is coming for the Recents feature on desktop. Slated to roll out globally next month, this update will make it so that Recent highlights are saved even after you close out of the Google Maps window. So now you’ll be able to plan multiple trips at once or take a break and come back without losing your progress. As for the new feature, Google is bringing a tool called glanceable directions to Android and iOS globally this month. This feature allows users to view updated ETAs and where to make the next turn from their lock screen or route overview. This information had previously only been available when in the comprehensive navigation mode. The tech giant states that this feature can be used for the walking, cycling, and driving modes. Shopping Two new features will be available to those who shop using Google Search. The first new feature is a virtual try-on tool that’s available starting today. Google says this tool lets users see how clothes look on a diverse set of real models while accurately reflecting “how it would drape, fold, cling, stretch, and form wrinkles and shadows on a diverse set of real models in various poses.” Right out of the gate, this tool can be used with brands including Everlane, H&M, LOFT, and Anthropologie. The other feature is called guided refinements, which aims to help US shoppers refine their search to find the perfect clothing item. As Google describes it, the company is trying to recreate the feeling of using a store associa...