The use of Google Maps has now become part and parcel of our lives. Its convenience goes beyond assisting with navigation; it is now in charge of tasks like locating new and crowded cafes in new areas and easily sharing one’s real-time location with friends and family for safety and convenience purposes. It will therefore only take admiring the tool to realize how many features it incorporates.

For newcomers to Google Maps, here are ten functionalities that can enhance your experience with the world’s leading mapping application:

Gemini Meets Google Maps

Gemini unpacked additional generative AI into Google Maps. This integration enables the users to thus launch navigation to the pre-specified terminal point using only voice instructions. The integration of these functionalities is tighter, making navigation more fluid, especially when accessing Google Maps while bike riding.

EV Rescuer

If you own an electric car, then it is easy to locate the nearest charging station for the car, as we shall learn in this article. Just click on your charger type icon on Google Maps and type “electric vehicle charging stations near me.” The authorized maps will then show the charging stations that are suitable for your two-wheeler, three-wheeler, or even your four-wheeler EV.

Live Location Shared for an Unlimited Time

Helpfully Google Maps allows for real-time location sharing, especially when you’re navigating areas that you’re not familiar with. You can decide whether to share your position for some time or indefinitely but do know that to stop sharing your location data, you have to do it by hand. Do not forget that the usage of this feature can lead to battery discharge faster than usual for your mobile device.

No Hassle To Remember Where You Parked Your Vehicle

Looking for parking is difficult in many modern cities, and, even more so, recalling the location of parked cars is time-consuming, particularly in areas that look the same. With the ‘Save Your Vehicle Parking Location’ feature, the exact lat and long of the parking spot can be identified and saved, making it easier to find your car/bike on your return.

Traveling Back In Time 

According to the features accompanying Google Maps, one has the ability to go back through time and see how a particular place or location looked several years ago through the street view time machine. Needless to say, such functionality is available only in some places and locations.

Guess Who Was On Call at Their Own Morning Show? A Weatherman 

In the present, you are now able to get weather updates in real-time for your present location inside the Maps app, as well as the air quality index. Google Maps has incorporated weather data and, thus, offers people proper tools to plan their trips.

Offline Navigation

Google Maps can also be used to download the map of a given city so that people are able to navigate even if they don’t have network coverage. This offline map feature is very useful, especially during movement in areas not frequently visited; hence, limited network coverage.

Accessing Indoor Live View 

In this app, users may sometimes lose their orientation, especially when in big places such as airports or shopping malls, thanks to the indoor live view tools wherein finding one’s location is very easy. You can easily navigate right to your boarding gate or perhaps a particular store. However, please note that this feature is currently implemented in over 10,000 locations, primarily airports in the US and other world’s megaplex shopping malls.

Saving Work And Home Location

In the course of the traffic peak, traveling may become quite problematic; however, to find the fastest routes with minimal traffic jams, you may turn to Google Maps. It is advisable to put your home and office addresses in the Maps application If you don’t have transport means, the application will plot the most convenient route depending on your mode of transport when leaving from either home or office.

Discovering New Places

This is in the Google Maps interface, which is still under development but available to some users, and the feature slated for release in the future makes it easier to discover new locations. You can then ask about places where a particular event is to be held, like the venue for a party or even where to buy home appliances, and Google Maps will provide an AI-reasoned summary that will help choose the best one.