How clear can Google Maps be?

1. Short URL To share your current location with friends, you can click the "Share Link" on the top right of the map. But the address link here is very long, because it contains the latitude and longitude information of at least one address. So how do we solve this problem? Use Google Maps short URL service. When you start the service, click "Share Connection" and a short URL converted by Google will appear, which is very concise and easy to manage.

The "short URL" service can simplify the lengthy address connection and is easy to manage.

2. It is very simple to determine the scale of the map, but it is more difficult to accurately scale the map because there is no detailed label on the zoom bar on the left side of the map. Only by feeling magnified several times can we achieve the desired effect. However, when the "Zoom in and Bound Area" function is turned on, a magnifying glass button will appear below the zoom bar. Click on it, and then draw a rectangle on the map with the mouse. At this point, the map will enlarge the picture in the rectangle to the whole screen. So you can quickly and accurately zoom in on the desired position.

Draw a rectangle on the map with the "zoom in" function, and Google will enlarge the picture in the rectangle to the whole screen.

3. When using Google Satellite Map for intelligent zoom-in, when the satellite data is insufficient to provide the details needed for the current zoom-in, a prompt "We don't have an image that can be zoomed in to this extent" may appear on the map. Intelligent zoom-in function can check the existing image in advance to prevent out-of-range zoom-in.

Prompt "We don't have an image that can be enlarged to this extent"

4. What's around here? Google Maps has a huge database, which contains a lot of information and data around a place. The "What's Here" function can tell you this information in detail. All you have to do is activate this function and click the "What's here" button on the right side of the search bar above. At this time, there will be many little red dot on the map, and each red dot represents a place. Click it for more information. At the same time, a list of information will appear on the left side of the map page, ranking places according to their proximity and popularity.

Click the button "What's around here" and many little red dot will appear on the map.

5. When the distance measuring tool queries the route, Google Maps will display the distance from the starting point to the destination, but this distance is the actual distance considering factors such as streets and roads. If you just want to know the straight line distance between two points, then use the "ranging tool". At this point, a ruler-shaped button will appear to the left of the current zoom in the lower right corner of the map. Click on it and then click on two points on the map at will. Google Maps will immediately connect the two points and display the location information of the two places and the exact distance (kilometers or miles) between the two points on the left side of the page.

The distance measuring tool can help you measure the linear distance between two points.

Here we only mentioned five functions of the laboratory, in addition, there are many interesting functions that can be seen in the settings. For example, the game "Guess where this is" can test your knowledge of world geography, guess the name of a country/region from satellite images, and constantly refresh its high score record. Latitude and longitude tooltips are also very practical. After opening, as long as you press the "shift" key on the keyboard, the latitude and longitude of the current position will be displayed in the lower right corner of the mouse. Don't ignore the wizard at the top of the zoom bar. Use it to see the local street view. Drag Minions out, and you will see many small blue boxes on the map. These blue boxes are photos uploaded by users of Panoramio, Picasa and Flickr. After Minions is placed in a certain place, the map will show a 360-degree street view of the current place, so that people can personally feel the local scenery.

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Browse the local scenery 360 degrees.

Here we have just uncovered the tip of the iceberg of Google Maps, and there are many other interesting functions waiting for you to explore slowly!