/r/GoogleMyMaps
Discussions about Google My Maps and any maps which you may find interesting.
Google My Maps is a tool to make it easy for anyone to map and discover information relevant to their world. Any submissions related to Google My Maps are accepted. All My Maps related questions, interesting maps, and news are more than welcome!
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The labels do not all show consistently. When zoomed in some do, but others require re-zooming.
Is there a way to make that more consistent, in case one wants to print?
ttps://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=10UfB2vu4gvbHr58feii9b2W1GCYUns8&usp=sharing
Hello! I am working for a property management company, where we need to dispatch our workers to specific locations. Where I'm located, a lot of the street addresses on google maps are non-existent or inaccurate. I have manually placed pins along with their address as the label on google my maps.
What I'm finding is whenever we share the map, it will automatically open in google maps, where you can view the legend. However, you cannot search any of the labels. Its quite tedious to go through the list 1 by 1 as there's no alphabetical sort option either.
Is there a way to use my maps on mobile so that we can search the legend?
It seems searchable on desktop form; however, mobile seems to be a huge disconnect. Any advice? Is this the not right service to use? Anyone have any other app suggestions (preferably free) that would allow me to do this?
Whenever I drag a map marker from the legend to a different layer, it changes it to “untitled” and I lose the title. How do you avoid this? Please help
I want to upload congressional district shapes/lines to a map I'm making but I've only been able to select latitude and longitude from a CSV or excel which just gives me one point, and KMZ didn't work. What's the best way to get the full district lines/shape, not just the centerpoint of a district?
I want to upload congressional district shapes/lines to a map I'm making but I've only been able to select latitude and longitude from a CSV or excel which just gives me one point. What's the best way to get the full district lines/shape, not just the centerpoint of a district?
Am trying to learn to do GPX-based off road maps for Jeeping. Have it working on my W10 PC but can't figure out how to navigate there on my android tablet. On my PC I access my maps by selecting SAVED>MAPS. But I can't find SAVED on the tablet. It's not in a left edge menu and not listed in the pull down from my profile icon (initial). Both PC and tablet profile initials list the same Google account and my saved stars migrate from one to the other. Anyway, I created a test off road map on my PC with My Google Maps and don't know how to find it on the tablet. Both are currently open to the same wifi.
I plan on embedding my map onto a website, I am sure this has been a topic of discussion at some point but I am a little new. Is there anyway to change the appearance of the base layer? If not ugh. I am willing to get a little into source code for the vis if it is an option, just wouldn't know where to start.
Sidenote...Imagine if the capabilities of My Maps and Looker (data studio) could be combined. Both are limited in their own rights as far as map visualizations, but together would be very powerful.
So, I made this map showing all pre construction projects in Miami.
Now, I would like to create a link to a specific pin. So when the user clicks on teh link, he is taken to that specific pin. Is that possible?
Here is the map.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1zvylZu5PbmRgJ1IdtWydAahLd0Gmw1Q&usp=sharing
Usually whenever I hover my mouse near the edge of the screen as I'm creating a line, the map will pan. However, I got a new laptop, and I haven't been able to do this, making line creation significantly harder. I tried other browsers but that didn't help. What is causing this?
I tried to pin the locations around the world, but half of the North America and a chunk of Russian Far East was cropped away. What should I do?
Is it possible to change the default red color of the side panel that appears when you publish your map?
I wanted to search for a map of my city's counties, and during the start of this year there was a section for searching maps, but now i cannot find anything
I'm trying to look specifically at a neighborhood of my city and the resources inside it. I can look up the neighborhood in google maps and it shows up with the neighborhood boundaries highlighted. How do I import those boundaries to MyMaps as a visual, but also as a tool to look up things inside?
On my PC legend entries on mymaps can be clicked on and act like hyperlinks. The same map displayed on my iPhone or iPad do not have the hyperlink capability. Is there a way to make the iPhone mymap act the same way it does on a PC?
Is it possible to cross reference pins?
I am making a map of pre construction developments in Miami.
I would like to add a layer showing the projects that have ocean view and one that shows projects that are allowed short term rental.
So to have the same pin in two different layers. Is that possible?
I have map made. On pin notes I have location , details, some urls, ect. Is there anyway for pin notes to have an option to open a batch file? I am using MyMaps to keep track of some wireless equipment we have out in field at work. Some of equipment have web interface, So have created a pin note with http:// for quick link. but some equipment uses other program or VLC player to open. Is there way to link a batch file under map pin notes?
Interested in community feedback on how to improve my Google Map showing the best toy stores in Melbourne.
I've pinned and ranked by Google Rating split by types of stores.
The aim initially was to help people find the top local toy shops. It led me down a path of highlighting the great work Toy Libraries do.
Edit: updated line breaks and typo
Anyone have a My Maps of all the national forests in the US?
I have added pins in a layer. But now, when I add a new pin in same layer, it goes under the last pin that I added. In stead of becoming its own. What am I doing wrong, please?
Hi, whenever I create a map on Google My Maps, it gets saved to my Google Drive, but it sits outside of any folders. My question is, if I move it into some folder, what will happen to it? Will I still be able to find it when I go to mymaps.google.com? Thanks!
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As title dictates, I've built out a sales rep call cycle. I'd like to add each day's customer calls to it's own layer so I can easily filter in and out of that day, however I need 24 different call days to complete the full cycle so I'm topping out at 10 layers.
I don't suppose there are any workarounds anyone has found? Unfortunately I can't use colours to differentiate as I am already using these for Customer Type.
TIA!
Thanks for any suggestions
For years I didn't visit GoogleMyMaps. When I left it was a very alive, colorful, and useful page, because we could search and find user-generated Google Maps. Many different kind of POI's -according to your interest areas- in your city could be found . Some users were preparing the maps and sharing them with the public.
As I understand today this function stopped now? :(
Why instead of going further they decide to go back, it is very difficult to understand?!?!
Is there any other alternative on the internet which could replace this function today? I checked but I could not find? It seems we must live in this retro-situation today :(
hello, I am coming here today for help i am making a map that requires custom colors for the markers to embed on a website. I have looked up everything that I could look up but still could not find anything. Could you guys possibly help or tell me how to do it? thanks.
Hello -- I am trying to make a map that includes several layers with markers styled by a data column. When I choose this option with an example layer (Data column "Type" with categories "Lead" and "Partner"), the Partner option is listed before Lead in the resulting map. I have tried reordering the data column (sort by A->Z and sort byZ->A) and this doesn't affect the order in which the categories are displayed. Is there a way to get the "Lead" category to display before the "Partner" category? TIA.
I'm trying to build something to allow colleagues to see customers that are nearby a potential future customer. However, I've run into problems with the 2000 layer limit. Anyone know any alternative map software like My Maps?
Hi I'm fairly new to Google my maps, but I'm very much enjoying curating my own maps.
I'm trying to import data about the train lines in my city (Chicago) in a separate layer. But I can't seem to make it work.
Any ideas where to start troubleshooting.
(I tried exporting and importing the data in all file types available.)
I made a custom route and I have it on my iphone using the google maps app and it lets me have the route, but REFUSES to give me directions and only gives directions using a different route (the one I want to avoid because it's under construction). How can I make google maps use the my maps custom route and give me directions to it?