How To Add a Place in Google Maps

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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

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

Edit a place :

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

Search for places :

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

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