Share. All Recipes Images Videos News My places. Then you may have to hit save again and it will bring up another screen. When the list is long, that is cumbersome. My experience is that Google Maps can be glitchy synching between the two.Hey Becca, Nice to hear from a fellow Saved Places-er. Plus it has offline capabilities.Hi Don. I have to either look on my lists or choose on map. On both your phone and computer? I’m sorry to hear about it.Quite a few readers report that when they share saved lists with friends their friends don’t see all the locations. You need to hide all other lists to do so.In the good old days (i.e. Like you said, it’s frustrating that they’re all one color, but I prefer multiple saved places lists to the alternative of having global lists.Hi Chris, is there anyway I can set up Google maps to notify me when I’m say within 20km radius of any of my saved places?
No there isn’t a way to filter your lists by city. I suspect this is related to issues syncing between desktop and mobile. I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem. I’ve added a note on this to the post so other readers are aware.Follow these screenshots and their captions to learn the basics of how to create a Google Maps saved places list, save locations to those lists, and share them with friends.I have scores and scores of deliveries to make. Once the route is created, the list of saves places is no longer available.Hi Frank. If you zoom in enough you should see the city names without having to tap.How does one add a saved place to an already existing route in google maps? Two, I can only save 300 per list and it deletes saved places, not oldest, but at a random.I find the easiest way to do it is plan it on the web version and then send the directions to my phone – far easier to click on a saved place with a mouse than fiddling with your phoneHi Samantha. That’s it for me using saved places on desktop. The places also appear as suggested locations in Google Maps. and you could not export the list like bookmarks and import them in a different account. Daily commute route to work and home don’t always choose the right path and leads somewhere else.Saved places lists are a game-changer compared to paper maps we all relied on not too long ago.
You need to hide all other lists to do so.In the good old days (i.e. You can then add a label (if you wish), add it to a saved places list, and add a note to remind you of why you saved it. The date you saved it to the list? It no longer will display my saved lists. There should be more personalization options for the user. You should be able to tap any of the blue icons on your map to pull up all the info on that saved place and get directions to it.
But, I can’t find a way to find an address on the saved list, to remove it (or, alternatively, to remove a marker after clicking it), other than just scrolling through the saved list, looking for that address. I suspect this is related to issues syncing between desktop and mobile. Is it something I have done? Happy travels.I’d love for you to add to maps a set your own route to places, literally choose the road you want to use, not just the “quickest suggested route”, I want to be able to change it, make short cuts and add them for future use.When I open a list of saved places, the map immediately zooms in on 0.0N 0.0E, ie where the prime meridian crosses the Equator. the SP’s exist on an ongoing roll-over basis of 500 items. As far as I know, there’s not yet any way to see any stats. So then I looked at your post about Saved Places – I created a list called Iceland Day One and added all the places from the Directions Layer from my custom map… and then there is *STILL* no way to make Google Maps create directions using all the points in the list.
I made a custom map for the whole trip, and then started making ones for each day, complete with a directions layer – only to find out that when I load the custom map on my phone, I can’t access that directions layer.